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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 7405362, member: 89314&quot;]COINS OF ERIK XIV</p><p><br /></p><p>Erik XIV (1560-68) was the eldest son of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_I_of_Sweden" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_I_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow">Gustav I</a> Vasa. While he has been regarded as intelligent and artistically skilled, as well as politically ambitious, early in his reign he showed signs of mental instability, a condition that eventually led to insanity. From 1563 onwards, his insanity became pronounced; his rule became even more arbitrary and marked by violence. His suspicion of the nobility led him to suspicions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture" rel="nofollow">Sture</a> family, then headed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Stensson_Sture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Stensson_Sture" rel="nofollow">Svante Stensson Sture</a>, who was married to Gustav&#039;s sister-in-law. In 1567, he killed several members of the family in the so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Murders" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Murders" rel="nofollow">Sture Murders</a>, Erik himself stabbing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Svantesson_Sture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Svantesson_Sture" rel="nofollow">Nils Svantesson Sture</a>. After the Sture murders Erik&#039;s conflict with the nobility came to its climax. in the fall of 1568, asserting Erik&#039;s insanity, the dukes and the nobles rebelled, and after some resistance Erik was imprisoned by his half-brother Duke Johan, who took power on 30 September. Erik was legally dethroned in January 1569 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksdag" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksdag" rel="nofollow">Riksdag</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the next seven years the ex-king was a source of anxiety to the new government. Three rebellions - the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1569_Plot" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1569_Plot" rel="nofollow">1569 Plot</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornay_Plot" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornay_Plot" rel="nofollow">Mornay Plot</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1576_Plot" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1576_Plot" rel="nofollow">1576 Plot</a> - with the object of releasing and reinstating him, had to be suppressed, and Erik was held as a prisoner in many different castles in both Sweden and Finland. He died in prison in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rbyhus_Castle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rbyhus_Castle" rel="nofollow">Örbyhus Castle</a> in 1577. According to tradition his final meal was a poisoned bowl of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_soup" rel="nofollow">pea soup</a>. His body was later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation" rel="nofollow">exhumed</a> and modern forensic analysis revealed evidence of lethal arsenic (Wikipedia).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are coins with Erik XIV&#039;s portrait but unfortunately I do not have one </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1/2 öre 1568</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1287638[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1287639[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1 1/2 Marks 1562 (view of Stockholm Archipelago on rev.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1287640[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1287641[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2 Mark (16 öre) 1563</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1287642[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1287643[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>3 Mark 1562 (Stockholm Archipelago on rev.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1287644[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1287645[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are also splendid coins with Erik XIV&#039;s portrait. Here he is on a Daler (not mine - picture from Numista/Heritage)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/suede/3420-original.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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