Yttermalung is a village situated in

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with 216 inhabitants in 2005. The village has a church, Yttermalungs kapell. There has been a chapel or church in Yttermalung since the 16th century, and the current church building was built in the late 19th century. In 1974, the largest collection of

plate money The svenska riksdaler () was the name of a Swedish coin first minted in 1604. Between 1777 and 1873, it was the currency of Sweden. The daler, like the dollar,''National Geographic''. June 2002. p. 1. ''Ask Us''. was named after the German Thaler. ...

in Sweden was found in Yttermalung. The collection consists of 240 plate coins, all in all weighing more than 234 kg. According to local tradition, the plate coins had been hidden in the mid-18th century by a powerful woman in the village who had become rich by selling timber to the copper mine in Falun, and who had died without telling anybody where she had hidden her riches. The Swedish politician

Marit Paulsen Marit Eli Paulsen (; 24 November 1939 – 25 July 2022) was a Norwegian-born Swedish journalist, author and politician for the Liberals. She was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to 2015. She was a well-k ...

, who was a

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, lived in Yttermalung.

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Populated places in Dalarna County Populated places in Malung-Sälen Municipality {{Dalarna-geo-stub