Riga (16)49 solidus
This specimen was lot 2703 in Steve Album Auction 52 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $72. The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDISH LIVONIA: Christina, 1632-1654, AR solidus, Riga, [16]49, a lovely lustrous mint state example! PCGS graded MS63." This type was struck 1635-54 for Christina. Struck on roller dies, many of these have off-center reverses. It is a city issue ("CIVI:RIG:"), not a provincial issue ("SOLIDUS LIVONIAE"). 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: 0.51-0.54 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]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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