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6 Dukater - Karl IX Type I
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1606 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#20 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1606 |
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Karl IX's claim to the Swedish throne was legally contested well into his reign — he had ruled as regent since 1599 after deposing his nephew Sigismund III, but only formally crowned himself king in 1604. Large gold multiples like this six-ducat piece functioned less as currency than as diplomatic gifts and demonstrations of royal legitimacy, issued at a moment when Karl was still fighting to have his kingship recognized abroad. Sweden and Poland-Lithuania remained technically at war over the succession.
KM#20 is among the rarest Swedish gold issues of the early Vasa period, with surviving examples almost exclusively in institutional collections.