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1 Ducat - Christian V
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1694-1696 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian V's ducats of the mid-1690s were struck during the uneasy peace following the Scanian War, a conflict that had exhausted Danish finances and effectively ended Denmark's ambitions to reclaim Scania from Sweden. Gold coinage of this quality and fineness was almost entirely a tool of diplomacy and payment to foreign mercenaries rather than domestic commerce — few Danes of any rank would have handled one in ordinary trade.
Fr#161 is among the scarcer Frederik/Christian-era Danish gold issues by surviving population, partly because the Copenhagen mint's output in these years was irregular and closely tied to available bullion stocks.