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1 Ducat - Charles Frederick
| Issuer | Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1705 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1560-1753) |
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| Obverse description | Youthful unadorned bust of Duke Carl Friedrich facing right, with long curled hair tied at the nape, the truncation resting above two small decorative rosettes or floral ornaments in the lower field. The surrounding Latin legend reads CARL . FRIDERICH . D . G . DVX . SVPREMVS . SLES:, separated by dot stops. The coin exhibits finely engraved portrait detail characteristic of early eighteenth-century German ducal coinage, with a milled border encircling the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | CARL . FRIDERICH . D . G . DVX . SVPREMVS . SLES: |
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Charles Frederick was just six years old in 1705, having inherited the duchy the previous year upon the death of his father Frederick IV. The duchy was a contested patchwork of territories with split sovereignty between the Danish crown and the Holstein-Gottorp line — a tension that would eventually lead to the Great Northern War engulfing the region entirely. Ducats struck under a child duke with regency governance are administratively unusual, and the 1705 issue falls squarely in that uncertain interregnum window.