Currency Exchange Rate in 1799: Sweden and Lapland

Stockholm, Upsal, Thorn, etc.

Note: This table shows the exchange rate in English Pound Sterling.

Coin	Equivalent	£	Shillings	Pence
Runstick	-	0	0	1/32
Stiver	2 Runsticks	0	0	1/16
Copper Marc	8 Runsticks	0	0	1 1/2
Silver Marc	3 Copper Marcs	0	0	4 1/2
Copper Dollar	4 Copper Marcs	0	0	6 1/2
Caroline	9 Copper Marcs	0	1	2
Silver Dollar	3 Copper Dollars	0	1	6 3/4
Rix-dollar	3 Silver Dollars	0	4	6
Ducat	2 Rix-dollars	0	9	4

Notes:

1. Imaginary money use in accounting, signifying a fictitious piece which did not exist, but was used to represent other pieces.

Source:

Guthrie, William. A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the several Kingdoms of the World. Montrose, 1799. P. 1036

Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2004

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