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1 Krone - Frederik IV
| Issuer | Copenhagen Mint |
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| Year | 1699-1702 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features an elaborate interlaced royal cypher of Frederik IV — a crowned double-F monogram — flanked by four heraldic roundels arranged in a cruciform pattern: the upper two bearing the lion of Denmark and the wyvern of the Goths respectively, and the lower central roundel displaying the three crowns device. A rayed triangle, symbolic of the Holy Trinity, appears at the centre of the interlaced cypher. Decorative foliate and ribbon ornaments fill the intervening spaces. The date, divided by the monogram, appears in the exergue as 1701 (on the illustrated example), while the circular Latin legend DOMINUS • MI | HI • ADIUTOR • (The Lord is my aid) runs along the upper periphery, interrupted by the crowned cypher. A heart-shaped mint mark is present between the legend segments. |
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Frederik IV inherited the Danish throne in 1699 and almost immediately found himself drawn into the Great Northern War, a conflict that would drain the treasury and reshape Scandinavian power for a generation. These krone issues, struck across just four years before the monetary pressures of sustained warfare forced adjustments to the coinage, were produced at a time when Denmark's military ambitions routinely outpaced its financial means.
The Copenhagen Mint under this period operated under tight royal oversight, with production closely tied to silver supplies from the Kongsberg mines in Norway — then still a Danish possession.