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1 Dalderi - Gustav II Adolf Looking forward
| Issuer | City of Riga |
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| Year | 1630-1631 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (Dalderi) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | GVSTAVUS · ADOLPHUS · D · G · REX · SVECOR · GOT · VA · (Translation: Gustav Adolf Dei Gratia Rex Sveciae Gothorum Vandalorumque Gustav Adolf, with God`s grace, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends) |
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Gustav II Adolf seized Riga from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces in 1621 after a siege, and the city's subsequent coinage operated under Swedish authority while retaining considerable municipal autonomy. This dalderi was struck at a pivotal moment — Sweden was then fully committed to intervention in the Thirty Years' War, having landed in Pomerania in 1630, and the king himself would be killed at Lützen just a year after this issue ended.
The "looking forward" designation distinguishes this from the facing-bust variety and corresponds to the catalogued die pairing across Ahlström, Federov, and Davenport. Riga's mint output during 1630–31 was constrained by the city's wartime economic pressures, making well-preserved survivors genuinely uncommon.