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[[Image:SA52-2710.jpg|550px|thumb|Steve Album Auction 52, lot 2710]] | [[Image:SA52-2710.jpg|550px|thumb|Steve Album Auction 52, lot 2710]] | ||
| − | This specimen was lot 2710 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $66. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "SWEDISH [[Livonia|LIVONIA]]: Karl XI, 1660–1697, AR solidus, Riga, [16]62, a pleasing lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS62." This type was struck 1660-68 for Charles XI of [[Sweden]]. | + | This specimen was lot 2710 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $66. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "SWEDISH [[Livonia|LIVONIA]]: Karl XI, 1660–1697, AR solidus, Riga, [16]62, a pleasing lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS62." This type was struck 1660-68 for Charles XI of [[Sweden]]. Note the "SOLIDVS CIVI RIG·" on the reverse. One thaler was 48 solidi or schillings. The city later returned to Polish rule but was contested between [[Poland]], Sweden and Russia for the next century, Russia emerging the eventual victor. Riga is today the capital of [[Latvia]]. |
''Recorded mintage:'' unknown. | ''Recorded mintage:'' unknown. | ||
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* [[Livonia 1660-IM thaler Dav-4596]] | * [[Livonia 1660-IM thaler Dav-4596]] | ||
* [[Lithuania 1661-TLB schilling]] Johann II Kasimir | * [[Lithuania 1661-TLB schilling]] Johann II Kasimir | ||
| + | * [[Riga (16)63 solidus]] | ||
* [[Coins and currency dated 1662]] | * [[Coins and currency dated 1662]] | ||
[[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 52]] | [[Category:Selections from Stephen Album sale 52]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:17, 4 March 2026
This specimen was lot 2710 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $66. The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDISH LIVONIA: Karl XI, 1660–1697, AR solidus, Riga, [16]62, a pleasing lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS62." This type was struck 1660-68 for Charles XI of Sweden. Note the "SOLIDVS CIVI RIG·" on the reverse. One thaler was 48 solidi or schillings. The city later returned to Polish rule but was contested between Poland, Sweden and Russia for the next century, Russia emerging the eventual victor. Riga is today the capital of Latvia.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.51 g, billon, 15 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-55.
- 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Dustin Wagner, Auction 52, featuring the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection and the Almer H. Orr III Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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