Jeton of Annika Larsdotter

The purpose of this medal was to play a joke on maid of honour Agneta Margareta Strömfelt. She entered the court at a very young age and was sometimes called “barnet” (“the child”), sometimes “Annika Larsdotter”. The patterns and engravings refer to the fact that she was always reluctant to participate in evening concerts, and especially to the time when she fell asleep and disturbed the performance with her snoring.

The medal is silver, 29 mm in diameter and 9.8 g in weight. Tessin had the medal struck in 1744 and it was engraved by Daniel Fehrman.