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1/4 Ducat / 3 Mark - Christian V
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1675 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler specie (1625-1813) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian V came to the Danish throne in 1670 and almost immediately began restructuring royal finances and the nobility's tax privileges through a series of aggressive reforms. The fractional ducat denominations struck in his early reign reflect a monetary system still bridging older German-derived accounting units — the Mark — with the ducat standard dominant in international trade. The dual denomination designation itself signals that ambiguity: a coin priced simultaneously in two different systems for two different audiences.
KM#353 is among the lighter fractional gold issues of the period, and surviving examples are genuinely scarce.