Watch List notes:

Sweden, Gustav Vasa SM ½ mark 1546. 5.61 g. Svartsjö. Portrait with semi-long beard similar to daler coinage. Lightly corroded. RRR. Ex Ahlström auction 31, lot 181. Ex Ahlström auction 41, lot 141. SMB -. App 877)(-. The Gustav I half marks of Svartsjö mintage show three different portraits, App 112-114. It is a portrait with short beard, short pointed beard and semi-long beard. Of the latter extremely rare type, App 114, we only know of three examples in private hands. It is this example presented in this auction, and two examples dated 1549. One 1549 example was sold at Ahlström auction 56, lot 343. The third example is currently offered at an auction in the Baltic States. We note that this extremely rare type is not recorded by Delzanno in his reference work "Sveriges Myntbok 995-2022". 1/1+