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1 Solidus - Christina Type 2, Riga
| Issuer | Swedish Livonia |
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| Year | 1645-1654 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRISTINA · D · G · R · S · C (Translation: Christina Dei Gratia Regina Sveciae Christina, with God`s grace, Queen of Sweden) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christina's Livonian solidus issues fall into several distinct types, and this second type was produced at the Riga mint during the latter half of her reign — a reign she abdicated in 1654, the same year this type ceased production. Sweden had held Riga since 1621, and the city's mint served as the primary facility for supplying small-denomination coinage across Swedish Livonia, a territory perpetually short of circulating money at the lowest denominational level.
The billon content in these pieces was kept deliberately low even by the debased standards of the day.