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1 Speciedaler - Frederik III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1661-1662 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler specie (1625-1813) |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored effigy of King Frederik III facing right, the bust breaking upward through a beaded (roped) inner circle. The king is depicted wearing armor overlaid with a mantle or drapery at the shoulder. A continuous Latin legend encircles the composition outside the inner circle, commencing at the left of the crown. The portrait is rendered in the Baroque style typical of mid-17th-century Danish royal coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederik III's consolidation of absolute monarchy in Denmark — formalized by the Kongelov of 1665 but effectively secured by the coup of 1660 — created immediate pressure on royal finances, and the speciedaler issues of 1661–62 were struck in part to fund the administrative restructuring that followed. The nobility's tax exemptions had just been stripped away, the old elective monarchy abolished, and the crown needed hard currency to pay a bureaucracy it was rapidly expanding from nothing.
The Dav EC II reference places this within the Danish absolute monarchy series, a classification that reflects a genuine constitutional rupture — not a gradual shift.