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1 Speciedaler - Christian IV Standing King - Type 2
| Issuer | City of Glückstadt |
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| Year | 1629-1630 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A standing female figure, representing Fortune or the city's patron allegory, occupies the center of the reverse field, depicted full-length, partially draped, standing atop a sphere and holding aloft a billowing sail or cloth with both hands raised. The figure is rendered in a lively, somewhat crude style typical of provincial hammered coinage of the period. The date 1629 appears to the left of the figure within the field. The surrounding legend, set within a beaded border, reads · MO : NO : CIVI : GLUCKSTADE ·, identifying this as a new coin of the City of Glückstadt. The overall composition reflects the municipal pride of the newly founded city under Christian IV's patronage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Glückstadt — "Lucky City" — was founded by Christian IV in 1617 as a deliberate commercial rival to Hamburg, which the Danish crown could not directly tax. The city never quite fulfilled that ambition, but it served as a mint site during the Thirty Years' War when Danish finances were under severe strain following the disastrous 1626 campaign against Tilly at the Battle of Lutter. Christian IV lost roughly half his army there and was effectively forced out of the German conflict by the Treaty of Lübeck in 1629 — the precise window this coin was struck.
The "Type 2" designation distinguishes this emission from earlier Glückstadt specie production by die characteristics documented under Dav EC II#3668D.