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1 Speciedaler - Christian VII
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1776-1780 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1776 - km# 632.1 - 1776 CHL - km# 632.2 - 1780 - km# 632.1 - |
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Christian VII was nominally king, but by the mid-1770s his severe mental illness — likely schizophrenia — had rendered him entirely incapable of governing. Real authority had passed to the Council of State, and from 1784 onward to Crown Prince Frederik. The Speciedaler issues of this period were produced under the administrative machinery of a functioning bureaucracy, not a functioning monarch.
The .875 fineness was a deliberate Danish standard that set the Speciedaler apart from the German Reichsthaler tradition, complicating exchange rates with Holstein and the North German trading ports on which Copenhagen depended.