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1 Ducat - Charles XI
| Issuer | Pomerania, Swedish dominion of |
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| Year | 1682 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Charles XI facing right, with long flowing curled hair, rendered in high relief in the Baroque portrait style. The mintmaster's initials 'BA' appear below the bust in the lower field. The circular Latin legend is positioned along the milled outer border, reading CAROL . XI . D . G . REX SVEC GO . & VAN. |
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| Mintage | 1682 BA |
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Charles XI's consolidation of Swedish Pomerania in the early 1680s followed his decisive victory at the Battle of Lund in 1676 and the subsequent Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1679, which returned the territory to Sweden despite Brandenburg's military gains. The Stralsund mint produced ducats for the province as part of a broader reassertion of Swedish administrative control — coinage being among the more visible instruments of that reassertion.
The .986 fineness places this squarely within the traditional Netherlands-influenced ducat standard that dominated northern European trade gold for centuries. Fr#2115 cross-references confirm the type within Friedberg's continental gold framework.