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6 Mark - Karl IX
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1609 |
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| Value | 6 Mark = 1 Riksdaler |
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| Obverse lettering | ( יהוה ) CAROLVS·IX·D:G·SVECORVM·GOTH | OR·VANDAL·&C·REX·1609 · IEHOVAH · SOLATI | VM · MEVM · (Translation: Karl IX, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends God is my comfort) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Karl IX spent much of his reign fighting both external enemies and the legitimacy questions that dogged a king who had seized the throne from his nephew Sigismund III — a deposed Catholic monarch who never stopped claiming Sweden as his own. The 1609 dating places this coin in the final year of Karl's life and reign, issued amid the ongoing Polish-Swedish War and a deteriorating conflict with Denmark that would formally erupt as the Kalmar War just the following year.
The 6 Mark denomination was the largest silver unit in the Swedish system at the time, making surviving pieces natural candidates for hoarding rather than circulation. Karl died in October 1611, and the type died with him.