SWEDEN
General coin specifications alloy: alpaca 12% diameter: 31,00 mm thickness: 2,25 mm edge: milled collection name:
Swedish Heritage
Collectors Coin recent collection size:
12 coins
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GÖTEBORG
Botaniska Trädgården
The Göteborg Botanical Garden differs in many aspects from most traditional botanical gardens on the European continent. It was conceived and plann ed by the municipality of Göteborg in the
1910's as a botanical garden with an extra emphasis on horticulture, and with a broad scope in the Swedish community life.
The area in total is 175 hectares of which most constitutes a nature reserve including an arboretum. The garden is about 40 hectares and there are growing about 16.000 different species in various parts of it. The Rock Garden received three stars in Guide Michelin. Other fascinating parts of the garden are The Rhododendron Valley and The Japanese Glade and the greenhouses. There visitors will find about 4.000 various plants, including some 1.500 orchids, a remarkable tufa apartment and the rare Eastern Island Tree.
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GÖTEBORG
Universeum
The Universeum is an experiment and experience centre in various fields of technology, science, universe, humankind and nature for young and old.
An exciting venue that offers the visitors four different areas to experience: Water’s Way,
Smaller and Smaller/Larger and Larger, The
Passage of Time and Humankind and its technology. All areas encourage for practical experiments and “hands-on” exhibitions.
The Universeum is a magnificent centre covering a full 10.000 square meters. A walk through all the departments is over three kilometers long. Visitors can follow the water from the Swedish mountain scape, via hills, lakes and the great oceans, through the South American jungle and right down to the lagoon in the heart of the rainforest. Home to everything from non-migratory Swedish birds, fish and snakes to exotic caymans, sharks, parrots and the world's most poisonous creature - the yellow poison-arrow frog link to the website
STOCKHOLM
Stockholm stad
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, set on fourteen islands surrounded by water so clean you can fish and swim right in the heart of the city. Known for its cultural life and history, the city is ranked as one of the ten most popular congress destinations in the world, and it has a great number of attractions.
Stockholm is also known as “The City of Science” because of its several universities and technology based industries and because the Nobel Prizes are awarded here.
The figure on the coin is Saint Erik, the patron saint of Stockholm and depicted in the city's coat of arms. Erik IX of Sweden (or Saint Erik) was a Swedish king c.1150 – 1160. No historical records of Erik have survived, and all information about him is based on later legends.
This coin is available at three different locations in the city: Stockholms city hall (Stadshus),
Medieval Museum (Medeltidsmuseet, temporarly to be found at Kulturhuset due to refurbishment) and Stockholms Stadsmuseum.
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STOCKHOLM
Stadshuset
The Stockholm City Hall is the building of the
Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm in
Sweden, located on the island of Kungsholmen.
The building was designed by architect Ragnar
Östberg, and built between 1911 and 1923.
Consisting of eight million red bricks the building is centered on two large squares, an outer yard and an indoor hall. The indoor hall was originally intended to be in blue, and is also called the "Blue
Hall", or Blå hallen, despite the fact that Östberg changed his mind and decided to keep the red bricks, because he found the colour more beautiful.
The Blue Hall is perhaps best known as the dining hall used for the banquet held after the annual
Nobel Prize award ceremony. The organ in the Blue Hall is with its 10,270 pipes the largest in
Scandinavia.
At the top of the 106 m tall tower the Three Crowns are visible, an old national symbol that is also present in the Coat of Arms of the Realm of Sweden.
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STOCKHOLM
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
At the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the young and old can learn new things about natural science using all their senses. The museum’s exhibitions offer instructive insights into life and the
Earth.
The museums vision and mission is to increase all people´s understanding of nature and its diversity.
Nature is amazing and rich, but also under threat.
The museum wants everyone to learn more about nature, view it from a holistic perspective and respect man´s place in it. link to the website

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Livrustkammaren
The Royal Armoury (in Swedish: Livrustkammaren) is located in an atmospheric cellar vault beneath the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The award-winning museum contains many interesting artefacts of
Swedish military history and the Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established by
King Gustavus Adolphus when he in 1628 decided that his clothes from the campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity.
There are magnificent costumes in gold-brocade from coronations and royal weddings, gilded carriages, weapons and armour.
You will also find Gustavus Adolphus' bloody shirts, elk-hide buff coat and horse from the Battle of Lützen in 1632, Charles XII's muddy uniform from the siege of Fredriksten fortress in 1718 and the masquerade costume worn by Gustav III at that fateful masked ball in 1792 where he was assassinated.
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STOCKHOLM
Aquaria vattenmuseum
The entrance to this impressive water museum is under a cascade of water.
Discover the Amazon with giant catfish, stingrays and arowanas. Night falls and a powerful thunderstorm breaks loose. In the morning mist, take the rope bridge over the river where piranhas lurk... Once out of the rainforest, you can study the river-life from below. Don't miss the poison arrow frogs with their striking warning colours.
Visit the sharks in the sea aquarium by crawling through the glass tunnel, and experience marine life close up, with starfish, corals, anenomes, clownfish and host of other creatures. Keep an eye out for the moray eels lurking in their caves.
You are transported from the tropics to the much cooler North. In the mountain pool swim a shoal of char. Each year in November - December sea trout leap from the Baltic outside the museum up the fish ladder to spawn indoors. After a couple of weeks the majority leave the museum again via the fish ladder, swimming out into the Baltic to feed before returning the year after.
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STOCKHOLM
Vasa museet
The Vasa was a Swedish 64-gun ship of the line, built for King Gustavus Adolphus of
Sweden of the House of Vasa, between 1626 and 1628. The Vasa capsized on its maiden voyage but was later recovered and is now on display at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.
Conservation of the ship itself was done using polyethylene glycol, a method that was also used years later in the conservation process of the Mary Rose. Vasa was sprayed with this glycol for 17 years, followed by slow drying.
Recent developments, however, have shown that this conservation method, in time, makes the wood brittle and fragile.
Over 26,000 artifacts have been found, including six original sails, still folded. After the lifting of the wreck, the wreck site was searched for artifacts and over 700 sculptures were found. These carvings were once attached to the ship, but the bolts had rusted away, causing the sculptures to fall to the bottom.
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STOCKHOLM
Vasa lion
The Vasa must have been a spectacular sight when she set sail on her maiden voyage.
A grand and fearsome ship, with lots of cannons, she was covered in brightly painted carvings of gods, demons, kings, knights, mermaids, and animals. A roaring lion, the Swedish king's symbol, jutted from the bow, and lions leered from the gunport lids.
In 1956, Anders Franzén thought of the possibility of recovering wrecks from the Baltic waters, because he figured that these waters were free from the shipworm Teredo navalis. He started looking for Vasa and found her in an upright position at a depth of 32 meters. Already in February 1959, 4,000 objects from the Vasa were exhibited in the National Maritime Museum.
The ship's giant figurehead, the Vasa lion, was brought up in August of 1959. It was made of linden wood, built in sections, deeply carved mane with gold leaf. It was very special and became the mascot of the salvage project.
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STOCKHOLM
Vasa klipping
Among the thousands of ancient coins found on the VASA were square-cut copper pieces, called
"klippings".
The letters G A R stand for GUSTAVUS
ADOLPHUS REX (King Gustavus Adolphus). The sheaf of grain is the crest of the royal Vasa dynasty, after wich the ship was named.
The House of Vasa was the Royal House of
Sweden (1523-1654) and also of Poland (1587-
1668), and the name continues to be associated with the Swedish royalty.
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STOCKHOLM
Gustav II Adolf
Gustav II Adolf (1594-1632) was King of Sweden from 1611 until his death. He is the only Swedish king to be styled "the Great". He was born in
Stockholm, the son of Charles IX of the Vasa dynasty and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.
He was one of the major participants in the Thirty
Years' War. He was prone to lead charges himself at crucial moments, and was wounded several times as a result. Gustav Adolf was killed at the
Battle of Lützen, when, at a crucial point in the battle, he became separated from his troops while leading a cavalry charge into a dense smog of mist and gunpowder smoke. His remains now rest in
Riddarholmskyrkan in Stockholm, and his leather armor is currently on display in the
Livrustkammaren at the Royal Palace.
During his reign, Gustav Adolf founded the city of Gothenburg as well as a number of smaller cities. He is also the founder of the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia, which then belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden. He was a highly enlightened ruler, and held the Swedish nobility on a firm leash, supporting both the merchant and worker class against the nobility.
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Skansen
Skansen is the world’s oldest open-air museum and is situated on the island of Djurgården within the city limits of Stockholm. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius, who had previously founded the
Nordic Museum on the same island.
After extensive travelling, Hazelius bought around
150 houses from all over the country (as well as one structure from Telemark in Norway) and had them shipped piece by piece to the museum, where they were rebuilt to provide a unique picture of traditional Sweden. Only three of the buildings in the museum are not original, and were painstakingly copied from examples he had found.
Visitors to Skansen meet a miniature historical Sweden reflected both in the buildings and their surroundings. The venues illustrate the different social conditions in which people lived in Sweden between the 16th century and the first half of the 20th century. The majority of houses and farmsteads are from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
Skansen became the model for other early open-air museums in Scandinavia and later ones elsewhere. Squirrels are widespread in Skansen, and the animal has therefor become the unoffical mascotte of this site.