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2 Mark - Charles XI
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1668-1674 |
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| Weight | 10.4008 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 16 73 2 M ..Df: |
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Charles XI was only a child when these marks began striking — he acceded to the throne in 1660 at age four, and Sweden spent most of the 1660s governed by a regency council dominated by Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. By 1668, when this type was introduced, the regency was already losing credibility through financial mismanagement and a series of disastrous foreign policy decisions that would eventually culminate in Charles assuming personal rule in 1672.
KM#260 spans the awkward transition from regency to royal authority — the same type issued under guardians and then under the king himself.