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1⁄16 Thaler - Christian V
| Issuer | Danish Royal Mint (Glückstadt) |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Currency | Glückstadt - Speciedaler (1617-1773) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1680 ⚒ |
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Christian V came to the Danish throne in 1670 inheriting a monarchy transformed by the 1665 Kongeloven — the most absolute codification of royal power in European history at the time, which legally bound the nobility and church entirely to crown authority. The Glückstadt mint, established by his grandfather Christian IV on the Elbe in 1617 as a deliberate commercial challenge to Hamburg, remained an active secondary facility into Christian V's reign precisely because its location served Holstein's separate administrative status within the dual monarchy.
The 1⁄16 thaler denomination was a workhorse of small retail commerce in the northern German-Danish monetary zone, where thaler fractions circulated alongside similar subdivisions from competing states.