1 Solidus - Christina

Riga's municipal solidus issues of the mid-seventeenth century reflect the city's anomalous political position: nominally under Swedish Crown authority following the 1621 conquest, yet retaining the right to strike its own civic coinage — a privilege jealously defended by the city council throughout Christina's reign. The Queen never visited Riga, and her abdication in 1654 brought this series to an abrupt close.

Billon of this fineness wore rapidly in circulation, and surviving examples with readable detail are harder to locate than the reference numbers suggest.