1/2 Krone 'Pumphosekrone' - Frederik III

The nickname "Pumphosekrone" — roughly "pumpkin-breeches crown" — derives from the exaggerated trunk hose depicted on the king's figure, a fashion already considered outdated by 1665 and apparently mocked even at the time of issue. Frederik III had only recently consolidated absolute hereditary monarchy in Denmark through the 1660 coup against the nobility, and this coinage belongs to his first major re-organization of the currency following that political rupture.

KM#258 is known with minor die variations in the ornamentation around the shield.