1/4 Riksdaler - Kristina Type II

Kristina inherited the Swedish throne at age six following her father Gustav II Adolf's death at Lützen in 1632, governed initially by Axel Oxenstierna and the regency council through the grinding final decades of the Thirty Years' War. These quarter riksdaler issues fall squarely within that regency-to-personal-rule transition, struck as Sweden was simultaneously fighting across Germany, financing its armies through war contributions, and managing an empire its treasury could barely afford to maintain.

The "Type II" designation separates this issue from the earlier Kristina coinage by die modifications introduced at the Stockholm mint around 1641.