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1 Mark Dansk - Christian V
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1685 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned shield bearing the denomination and date in four lines within the shield's field. A cross with thick, abbreviated arms is positioned behind the shield, its extremities visible at the quarters. The royal motto legend encircles the design as a peripheral inscription, separated by ornamental stops. The overall composition reflects late 17th-century Danish baroque coin design. |
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| Reverse lettering | * I * MARCK DANSKE 1685 · G · S · PIETATE. ET. IUSTITIA. (Translation: With Piety and Justice) |
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Christian V's monetary reforms of the 1670s and 1680s restructured Danish coinage around a rational speciedaler system, displacing the older krone-based accounting. The 1 Mark piece occupied an awkward intermediate denomination in this transition — worth 16 skilling — and was struck in relatively limited quantities across Copenhagen's royal mint throughout the decade.
The .671 fineness places it below the higher-purity speciedaler coinage, reflecting deliberate policy to reserve finer silver for prestige issues while keeping subsidiary denominations in debased alloy.