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1 Öre - Sigismund
| Issuer | Reval, City of |
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| Year | 1597 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of King Sigismund III facing right, wearing a crown, with a ruffled collar visible at the neck. The royal effigy is rendered in a late Renaissance style typical of Baltic coinage of the period. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait within the coin's field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Reval — modern Tallinn — occupied a precarious position in 1597, nominally under the Swedish crown following the Livonian War but resistant to direct royal interference in its municipal privileges. Sigismund III Vasa, simultaneously King of Sweden and Poland, was already in open conflict with his uncle Duke Charles over control of Sweden itself. The city's continued right to strike its own coinage was one of several autonomy claims it defended aggressively during this period of dynastic instability.
Sigismund was formally deposed by the Swedish Riksdag in 1599, making this a short-lived regal type by any measure.