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1 Ducat - Frederick II Seven Years War coinage
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1564 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1513-1572) |
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| Reverse lettering | · I · DOC · KATE · · 1564 · |
| Edge | Plain |
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Frederick II issued this ducat during the Northern Seven Years' War (1563–1570), Denmark's costly conflict with Sweden over control of the Baltic and the right to bear the three-crown arms of Sweden. Danish war finance during this period relied heavily on Sound Toll revenues and emergency borrowing from Lübeck and the Netherlands — gold coinage served diplomatic and mercantile payment functions far more than domestic circulation.
Fr#22 places this firmly within Friedberg's Scandinavian gold listings, while the SIEG reference anchors it to Siegfried's Danish corpus. The .986 fineness is consistent with ducat standard maintained across northern European minting in this period.