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1 Speciedaler - Christian VII Silver pattern strike
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1805 |
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| Weight | 28.34 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait bust of King Christian VII facing right, rendered in high relief in a neoclassical style with finely detailed powdered wig tied with a queue and flowing curls at the nape. The truncation is plain and the field is smooth and deeply polished. The encircling Latin legend reads CHRISTIANUS VII DEI GRATIA, separated from the rim by a continuous inner beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (1805) - - ND (1805) - Restrike - 'N' embossed on edge - |
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Christian VII was, by 1805, wholly incapacitated — his mental illness, likely a form of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, had rendered him a figurehead for decades, with real power held first by Johann Friedrich Struensee and later by Crown Prince Frederik. Pattern strikes bearing his name in this period were produced under Frederik's regency, making them administrative curiosities as much as numismatic ones.
Pattern speciedalers of this type were never released for circulation. The 1805 date places this squarely in the period just before the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807, which precipitated Danish bankruptcy in 1813 and wholesale monetary reform shortly after.