1 Solidus - Christina Type 2, Riga

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.