Riga (16)50 solidus
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This specimen was lot 76416 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $85. The catalog description[1] noted, "LIVONIA. Swedish Occupation. Solidus, "50" (1650). Riga Mint. Karl X Gustav. PCGS MS-62." This type was struck 1635-54 for Christina, not Karl Gustav. Struck on roller dies, many of these have off-center reverses. It is a city issue ("CIVI:RIG:"), not a provincial issue ("SOLIDUS LIVONIAE") for which, see KM 2. Riga and Livonia were seized by Sweden from Poland in 1621 and retained by them until their loss to Russia in 1721.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.52-0.56 g, billon, 15 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-21.
- Bjorne Ahlstrom, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokforlaget AB, 1976.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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