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1 Gulden 'Hungarian' - Christian IV
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark |
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| Year | 1591-1593 |
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| Value | 1 Goldgulden (6⁄5) |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered heraldic shield displaying the royal arms of Denmark and its associated territories, surmounted by a royal crown. The four quarters contain the three lions of Denmark, the lion of Norway, the rams of the Faroe Islands, and three crowns of Sweden among other charges, rendered in fine hammered relief. The shield is set within a beaded inner circle surrounded by a Latin peripheral legend citing the king's ducal and comital titles. The date appears integrated within the reverse legend. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian IV was not yet king when these gulden were struck — he was a minor, and Denmark was governed by a regency council following Frederik II's death in 1588. The "Hungarian" designation refers to the Hungarian ducat standard the coin was struck to, a weight and fineness convention widely trusted in northern European trade. Minting to that standard was a deliberate commercial decision, not a domestic monetary one.
Fr#32 places this firmly within Friedberg's gold coinage of the world corpus. The .972 fineness is consistent with the Hungarian ducat tradition, which maintained exceptional purity precisely because merchant acceptance depended on it.