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1 Goldgulden - Christian III
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark |
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| Year | 1557 |
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| Weight | 3.57 g |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and bearded bust of King Christian III facing right, depicted in armour with a prominent royal crown adorning his head, rendered in the late Renaissance hammered style. The effigy is set within an inner beaded circle that separates it from the surrounding legend. The king's facial features, including a full beard, are rendered with notable detail for a hammered gold issue. The Latin circular legend reads CHRISTIANVS 3 D G DANIE NOR, invoking his title as King of Denmark and Norway by the Grace of God. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRISTIANVS 3 D G DANIE NOR (Translation: Christian III (King of) Denmark and Norway, by the Grace of God) |
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Christian III secured Lutheran Denmark's place as a Protestant kingdom through the Count's War and the Church Ordinance of 1537, but his goldgulden coinage reflects something more pragmatic than theology: the need to participate in pan-European mercantile exchange on standardized Rhenish gulden terms. Danish gold of this reign is genuinely scarce in any condition, partly because the kingdom's gold output was never self-sufficient and production volumes were accordingly modest.
Fr#15 is among the rarest Frederiksberg-era attributions in Friedberg's northern European sequence.