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1/2 Dalderi - Carl XI
| Issuer | City of Riga |
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| Year | 1668 |
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| Reference(s) | Ahlström#95, Fed#957, KM#66 |
| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Carl XI of Sweden facing right, depicted with long flowing curled hair in the baroque style. The effigy shows the king in armour with a lace cravat visible at the shoulder. A circular legend surrounds the portrait, separated from the inner field by a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Riga's municipal coinage occupied a peculiar legal position in the 1660s. The city retained its traditional minting rights even after Swedish conquest in 1621, issuing coins under its own civic authority rather than directly in the name of the Swedish crown — an arrangement that reflected the considerable autonomy Stockholm had promised to secure Riga's cooperation. By 1668, Carl XI was nominally king but still a minor under regency government, and the city's mint was operating in a political environment shaped more by Baltic trade imperatives than by Stockholm's preferences.
The reduction of Riga's minting privileges came later, in the 1690s, during Carl XI's absolutist reforms.