8 Dalers, Sweden, 1663
date: label: Date made
content: 1663
label: period of administration
content: 1660 - 1697
notes: label: Description
content: This Swedish plate money is made of copper metal and weighs 31 pounds. When it was made in 1663, Sweden had a lot of copper in its mines, but very little silver metal. This made silver much more valuable than copper.
label: Description
content: The design at the center of the plate shows it was worth about 8 Swedish dollars, called <i>dalers</i>. In 1663 this plate could buy four pigs.
label: Description
content: Sweden’s biggest copper mine is called the Falun (FA-loon) mine. People mined copper there for over 1,000 years (until 1992). It produced more copper than any other mine in Europe.
place: label: place made
content: Sweden
label: associated place
content: Sweden
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
label: Exhibition
content: Really BIG Money
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Chase Manhattan Bank
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1263.02238
label: catalog number
content: 79.112
label: accession number
content: 1979.1263
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1263.02238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate money
label: Object Name
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54.3 cm x 31.5 cm; 21 3/8 in x 12 13/32 in