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2 Mark - Carl XI 2nd shield
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1664 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Reval — present-day Tallinn — had been under Swedish rule since 1561, and by 1664 the city retained enough municipal autonomy to strike its own coinage under Charles XI, then still a minor governed by a regency council. The "2nd shield" designation distinguishes this die variety from earlier strikings by a reconfigured arrangement of the city's armorial quartering, a change almost certainly driven by the engraver rather than any administrative mandate.
Charles XI would later curtail Baltic city minting privileges substantially during his reduktion policies of the 1680s, making the 1664 issues among the final expressions of Reval's independent coining tradition.