2 Mark - Charles XI

Charles XI was only nine years old when this coin was struck in 1664, meaning Sweden was governed entirely by a regency council dominated by the high nobility — a period later scrutinized harshly when Charles assumed personal rule and launched his reduktion policy, clawing back aristocratic lands to the Crown. The coin predates that political reckoning by over a decade.

KM#243 is associated with Stockholm mint production during a period when Swedish silver coinage drew heavily on Baltic trade revenues and the empire's copper wealth. The .750 fineness reflects a deliberate, if modest, debasement from earlier mark coinage standards.