103501 | SWEDEN. Gustaf V/Masonic bronze Medal.

103501  |  SWEDEN. Gustaf V/Masonic bronze Medal. Issued 1927. Commemorating the king's 50th year as a mason (56mm, 71.70 g, 12h). By Erik Lindberg at the Stockholm mint.

 

+ GUSTAF V SVERIGES KONUNG IX FRIM • PROV • V • S • V •, bare head left // GENOM TÖCKNEN MOT LJUSET (through the mist, to the light), eagle, with head right, standing left atop rocks and among the clouds and star-filled sky; AV SVENSKA / STORA LANDS– / LOGEN – TILL MINNE AV / ÅREN / 1877–1927 across lower field. Edge: BRONS 1927.

Ehrensvärd 269. Gem Mint State. Light brown-bronze surfaces.

 

Entering the lodge as a mason at the age of 19, the future king Gustaf V would eventually serve, in his role as the king of Sweden, as the Grandmaster of the Swedish Order of Freemasons. Here, Lindberg commemorates the king's 50th year as a mason.

 

Upload: 3 August 2026.