Örtug or ortig (Finnish: äyrityinen, aurto or aurtua) was a medievalcurrency unit in Sweden. It was originally minted as a silver coin in 1370 during the reign of king Albert of Sweden.[citation needed] The coin weighed about 1.3 grams and consisted of 81% silver. As time passed, the örtug was debased: during the reign of Eric of Pomerania, the örtug contained 0.88 grams of silver; under Christian I, 0.7 grams; and in 1534 only 0.54 grams of silver.
During the reign of Gustav Vasa (1523–1560), the monetary system of Sweden was reformed: an örtug was now subdivided into 12 pennings, not 8 as before, while still valued as one third of an öre.
Örtug coins were struck during the years 1523–1534; 1535–1540 in Stockholm; 1528–1531 in Västerås and 1589–1589 in Stockholm and Uppsala. Production ceased after another monetary reform in 1776.
Zbigniew Żabiński, Rozwój systemów pieniężnych w Europie zachodniej i północnej (Development of monetary systems in western and northern Europe), Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo, Wrocław 1989, ISBN83-04-02992-8
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