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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 311265, member: 6370&quot;]<img src="http://www.cachecoins.org/christinaregina.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Queen Christina of the House of Vasa, 1632-1654 (caretaker government until November 8 1644) Official Coronation October 20 1650 </p><p><br /></p><p>Silver medal / 1650, by J. Parise: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Christina on October 20th in Stockholm.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Bust of Queen </p><p><br /></p><p>Rev: arm with laurel coming from clouds holds a crown over inscription AVITAM ET AVCTAM (Ancestral and Enlarged). </p><p><br /></p><p>Size: 33.65 mm; 20.56 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>Only surviving child of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. </p><p><br /></p><p>As the heiress presumptive, at the age of six, she succeeded her father to the throne of Sweden upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years&#039; War. While a caretaker government, matters of state were run by her guardian, regent and adviser Axel Oxenstierna.</p><p><br /></p><p>Converted to Catholicism and abdicated her throne in 1654. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Spent her latter years in France and Rome. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>She died April 19 1689 at the age of 62[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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