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1 Noble - Frederick I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark |
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| Year | 1532 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A large, elaborate quartered royal coat of arms occupies the central field, surmounted by a crown and flanked by supporters rendered in high relief, incorporating the heraldic devices of the Danish realm including lions and other charges typical of the period. The shield is set within an ornate mantling or foliate surround. A beaded inner circle separates the central device from the outer marginal legend, which reads IN MANV DOMINI OMNIS POTESTAS TERRE 153Z, a devotional Latin inscription proclaiming that all earthly power rests in the hand of the Lord, with the date appearing at the end. The composition reflects the influence of late Gothic and early Renaissance heraldic engraving conventions prevalent in Scandinavian coinage of the early sixteenth century. |
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| Reverse lettering | IN MANV DOMINI OMNIS POTESTAS TERRE 153Z |
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Frederick I struck this noble in direct imitation of the English gold noble, a denomination that had circulated as a prestige trade coin across northern Europe for over a century by 1532. The Danish adoption was partly pragmatic — Hanseatic merchants already valued and understood the type — but also political, signaling ambitions within the Baltic trade network at a moment when Frederick was managing the fallout of the Counts' War and the slow dissolution of the Kalmar Union.
Fr#12 is among the rarest Danish gold issues of the sixteenth century. Frederick died in April 1533, the year after this coin was struck.