1671 1/6 Ore Delaware Fur Trade, Sweden, King Carl XI Avesta Mint MAKE AN OFFER!
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New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige, Finnish: Uusi Ruotsi, Latin: Nova Svecia) was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of Delaware River in North America from 1638 to 1655 in the present-day American Mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement. Along with Swedes and Finns, a number of the settlers were Dutch. New Sweden was conquered by the Dutch in 1655, during the Second Northern War, and incorporated into New Netherland. By the middle of the 17th century the Realm of Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent and was one of the great powers of Europe. Sweden then included Finland and Estonia along with parts of modern Russia, Poland, Germany and Latvia, under King Gustavus Adolphus and later Christina, Queen of Sweden. The Swedes sought to expand their influence by creating an agricultural (tobacco) and fur-trading colony to bypass French and English merchants. The Swedish West India Company began with a mandate to establish colonies between Florida and Newfoundland for the purposes of trade, particularly concentrated in the Delaware River. Its chartered included Swedish, Dutch, and German stockholders and led by directors of the New Sweden Company, including Samuel Blommaert. The Company sponsored 11 expeditions made up of 14 separate
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