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1 'Dicke' Krone - Christian IV Closed crown
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1624-1625 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Copenhagen Mint, Denmark |
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The "dicke" (thick) Krone was Christian IV's answer to a persistent problem: Danish trade in the Baltic and North Sea required a heavy silver coin credible enough to compete with the joachimsthaler and its derivatives. Christian had already demonstrated an obsessive interest in monetary reform, personally involving himself in mint administration to a degree unusual even among absolutist monarchs of the period. The 1624–1625 issues coincide with Denmark's increasingly expensive preparations for intervention in the Thirty Years' War, a campaign that would end in the humiliating Peace of Lübeck five years later and leave the Danish crown financially crippled for a generation.