Frederik IV's copper fractions were produced during a period of monetary rebuilding following Denmark's ruinous involvement in the Great Northern War, which had drained the treasury and destabilized the currency through the 1710s. The 1719 date places this piece in the immediate aftermath of that fiscal pressure, when small copper coinage was being re-established to meet domestic circulation demand.
KM#512 is not a rare attribution, but surviving examples in collectible condition are genuinely scarce — copper fractions of this size circulated hard and were rarely preserved.
Frederik IV's copper fractions were produced during a period of monetary rebuilding following Denmark's ruinous involvement in the Great Northern War, which had drained the treasury and destabilized the currency through the 1710s. The 1719 date places this piece in the immediate aftermath of that fiscal pressure, when small copper coinage was being re-established to meet domestic circulation demand.
KM#512 is not a rare attribution, but surviving examples in collectible condition are genuinely scarce — copper fractions of this size circulated hard and were rarely preserved.