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1 Speciedaler - Frederik III 13 province arms
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1649 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large ornate oval cartouche bearing the quartered Danish royal arms is centrally placed over a long-armed cross, the whole encircled by a ring of thirteen smaller round shields each bearing the arms of a Danish territory or province. The Danish royal crown surmounts the composition, cutting through the pearled inner circle at the top. From the lower arm of the cross hangs the badge of the Order of the Elephant. The royal motto is inscribed in the outer legend, with the date split around the composition and divided by the crown. |
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Frederik III came to the Danish throne in 1648 under severe constraints — the nobility had forced him to sign an accession charter that stripped the crown of most meaningful executive power. The thirteen-province arms type issued the following year reflected a deliberate royal project of dynastic assertion, cataloguing territorial claims across Scandinavia and the duchies at a moment when the king had precious little actual authority to back them up. The political situation would reverse dramatically with the coup of 1660, which abolished the elective monarchy entirely and installed hereditary absolutism, but these early daler issues predate that transformation entirely.
Dav EC II#3540A distinguishes this from related die marriages within the type — worth confirming against the reverse die before attributing.