CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN SILVER 3 POLKER_____Dated 1633_____MINERVA OF THE NORTH

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER 3 POLKER OF QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN DATED 1637 AD .
AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FATHER (GUSTAV II ADOLF) QUEEN CHRISTINA TOOK THE THRONE AT AGE 6, AND CONTINUED TO MINT COINS UNDER HER FATHER'S NAME.
IN EUROPE, SHE WAS KNOWN AS "MINERVA OF THE NORTH"
THE SIZE IS 20.0 MM AND 0.84 GRAMS.
OBVERSE – Crowned four-sectioned shield surrounded by legend GVST · ADOLD · D : G · REX · S · (Translation: Gustav Adolf, with God's grace, King of Sweden)
REVERSE – Cross on orb containing value and separating date, all surrounded by legend. MON · NOVA - CIVI · RIGE · (Translation: New coin of the city of Riga)
QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Christina was born in the royal castle Tre Kronor in 1626. Her parents were the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus and his German wife, Maria Eleonora, had already had two daughters—a stillborn princess in 1620, and then the first Princess Christina, who was born in 1623 and died the following year. Excited expectation surrounded Maria Eleonora's third pregnancy in 1626. When the baby was born, it was first thought to be a boy as it was "hairy" and screamed "with a strong, hoarse voice." She later wrote in her autobiography that, "Deep embarrassment spread among the women when they discovered their mistake." The king, though, was very happy, stating, "She'll be clever, she has made fools of us all!" From most accounts, Gustav Adolf appears to have been closely attached to his daughter, and she appears to have admired him greatly.
After her father died in the Battle of Lützen, Christina, his only heir, became queen-elect before the age of six. By his orders she was educated as a prince. Five regents headed by the chancellor Axel Oxenstierna governed the country. Her brilliance and strong will were evident even in her childhood. An assiduous politician, Christina was able to keep the bitter class rivalries that broke out after the Thirty Years’ War from lapsing into civil war but was unable to solve the desperate financial problems caused by the long years of fighting.
Most descriptions of Queen Christina were unanimous in that she was ‘mannish’ with a deep voice and shoulders of irregular height (supposedly because her wet-nurse dropped her on the floor). She also shocked a lot of her people because she dressed and acted like a man (which wasn’t how royal ladies acted at the time).
Highly cultured and passionately interested in learning, she rose at five in the morning to read and invited eminent foreign writers, musicians, and scholars to her court. The French philosopher René Descartes himself taught her philosophy and died at her court Her reign saw the first Swedish newspaper (1645) and the first countrywide school ordinance; science and literature were encouraged, and new privileges were given to the towns; trade, manufactures, and mining also made great strides.
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