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1/2 Speciedaler - Christian IV Standing King type
| Issuer | City of Glückstadt |
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| Year | 1623-1625 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of King Christian IV standing facing right in armour, holding a sceptre in his right hand and resting his left hand upon a large crowned shield bearing the quartered arms of Denmark and Norway. The king wears a crown and elaborately decorated armour with tassets visible. The figure is contained within a beaded inner circle, with the royal Latin legend disposed around the periphery. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Glückstadt was founded by Christian IV in 1617 as a deliberate commercial rival to Hamburg, and these civic issues reflect that ambition directly — the city had barely existed six years when this coin was struck. The "Standing King" type belongs to a brief window of municipal silver coinage before Hamburg's financial and political dominance rendered Glückstadt's independent minting irrelevant.
Lange 42 is among the scarcer documented varieties of this short emission, struck across just three years before the type was abandoned.