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2 Mark - Kristina Type II
| Issuer | Stockholm Mint |
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| Year | 1641-1646 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | CHRISTINA·D:G:SVE:GOT:WAN:Q:DE:RE:ET·PR:HÆ:* (Translation: Kristina, by the Grace of God, King of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends.) |
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Queen Kristina inherited the Swedish throne at age six following her father Gustav II Adolf's death at Lützen in 1632, with a regency council governing in her name until she came of age. The Type II designation reflects a revised portrait treatment introduced partway through her early personal reign — Swedish portrait coinage of this period cycled through dies with some frequency as engravers competed for court favor.
Kristina would abdicate in 1654, convert to Catholicism, and leave Sweden permanently — a sequence of events that made her later coinage politically awkward to display during the reign of Karl X Gustav.