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1 Ducat - Carl XI 5th portrait
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1675-1681 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS · XI · D : G : SVE : GOT : VAN : REX : (Translation: Carolus XI Dei Gratia Sveciae Gothorum Vandalorumque Rex Carl XI, with God`s grace, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends) |
| Reverse description | A crowned oval shield bearing three passant lions stacked vertically, representing the arms of the city of Reval, occupies the central field. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown and framed by a plain oval cartouche. The date 1677 appears within the legend, which reads MON : NOV : AVR : CIV : REVALIENS :, identifying this as a new gold coin of the city of Reval. The legend is arranged around the full circumference of the reverse in Latin capitals. |
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Reval — present-day Tallinn — operated under Swedish suzerainty from 1561, and its municipal coinage during Carl XI's reign reflected an uneasy balance between civic pride and Crown authority. The city retained minting rights largely because Stockholm found it administratively convenient, not out of any particular generosity. These ducats circulated in a Baltic commercial world still absorbing the aftershocks of the Scanian War, which pulled Swedish fiscal attention sharply westward between 1675 and 1679.
The fifth portrait designation distinguishes this issue within a tightly sequenced series of Carl XI ducats from Reval — Ahlström's cataloguing separates them by obverse die progression rather than any change in monetary policy.