1/8 Speciedaler - Frederik III

Frederik III's reign saw Norway administratively absorbed into a tighter Danish autocracy following the 1660 constitutional revolution, which stripped the Danish nobility of hereditary privilege and concentrated fiscal authority in the crown. Norwegian silver coinage of this period was partly funded by output from the Kongsberg mines, which had been producing since 1623 and by the 1660s were approaching peak early output. The 1/8 speciedaler denomination itself was short-lived — the fractional specie series was largely abandoned within a generation as the monetary system was rationalized under Christian V.