GUSTAV II ADOLF SILVER 3 POLKER____Dated 1632___GOLDEN AGE OF SWEDEN___Riga Mint

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FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL SILVER 3 POLKER OF GUSTAV iII ADOLF (KING OF SWEDEN) DATED 1632 AD .
Some have called him the father of modern warfare, or the first great modern general.
THE SIZE IS 20.0 MM AND 0.95 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)
GUSTAV II ADOLF
Gustav II Adolf (1594 – 1632), widely known in English by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus, was founder of the Swedish Empire at the beginning of what is widely regarded as the Golden Age of Sweden. In the era, which was characterized by nearly endless warfare, he led his armies as King of Sweden—from 1611, as a seventeen year old, until his death in battle while leading a charge during 1632, in the bloody Thirty Years’ War—as Sweden rose from the status as a mere regional power and run of the mill kingdom to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government. Sweden expanded to become the third biggest nation in Europe after Russia and Spain within only a few years during his reign. Some have called him the father of modern warfare, or the first great modern general.
He is, and was even during his own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one of the few European kings and sovereign princes during the seventeenth century worthy of the office. He was considered one of the greatest military generals in all of history, and his battles were studied assiduously by later great military figures. He did not have a legitimate male heir, however, and was succeeded by his daughter Christina of Sweden. Abdicating in 1654, she was the last ruler from the house of Vasa.
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