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1 Daler - Sigismund of Poland
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1594-1598 |
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| Value | 1 Daler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | SIGISMVNDVS * DEI * GRATIA * SVECORVM (Translation: Sigismund by the Grace of God (King of) Sweden) |
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Sigismund III Vasa held the Swedish throne for only four years before his uncle, Charles of Södermanland, led the Protestant nobility in open revolt against a king they viewed as a Catholic foreign ruler more interested in his Polish crown than Swedish affairs. The riksdaler issues struck during his reign carry a particular political urgency — Sigismund spent much of 1594–1598 absent from Sweden entirely, governing from Kraków, leaving the country functionally in the hands of regents hostile to him.
He was formally deposed at the Battle of Stångebro in 1598. Coins bearing his authority were struck for fewer than five calendar years.