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4 Mark - Gustav II Adolf Weight of 10 Mark
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1623 |
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| Weight | 47.43 g |
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| Obverse description | Armored half-figure of Gustav II Adolf facing right, holding an orb in his left hand and a scepter in his right, rendered in a bold relief typical of early 17th-century Baltic coinage. The effigy is positioned centrally within the coin field and is surrounded by a continuous Latin legend along the periphery. The inscription identifies the king by name and titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | GVSTAV : ADOLF · DG · SVEC : GOT : V : REX · (Translation: Gustav Adolf Dei Gratia Sveciae Gothorum Vandalorumque Rex Gustav Adolf, with God`s grace, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends) |
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Reval — modern Tallinn — was a prosperous Hanseatic city under Swedish rule when this piece was struck, and its municipal mint operated with unusual autonomy for a conquered territory. The "Weight of 10 Mark" denomination reflects the Hamburg mark weight standard, which Reval's merchants had used for generations before Swedish annexation and refused to abandon. Gustav II Adolf, deep in the financing demands of his German campaigns that would define the Thirty Years' War, permitted the city's commercial traditions to continue largely intact — monetary pragmatism over imperial standardization.
The KM#5.2 designation distinguishes this from the closely related 5.1 variety.