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1 Speciedaler - Frederik III
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1667 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler specie (1625-1813) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of King Frederik III of Denmark facing right, rendered in high relief in the Baroque style, with flowing long hair beneath a laurel wreath. The king is clad in armour with an ornate mantle draped over the shoulders. The encircling Latin legend reads FRIDERICVS · 3 · D · G · DAN · NOR · VAN · GOT · REX, denoting his titles as King of Denmark, Norway, the Wends and the Goths. |
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| Reverse description | The Danish royal coat of arms displayed on a crowned oval shield, quartered with three passant lions in the first and fourth quarters and a lion rampant in the second quarter, with three crowns in base, the whole set within a laurel wreath. The date 1667 appears flanking the shield, and the mintmaster's initials FCH appear in the exergue below. The surrounding legend reads DOMINVS PROVIDEBIT, meaning 'The Lord will provide.' |
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Frederik III's reign saw Denmark emerge from the catastrophic wars with Sweden — the Peace of Roskilde in 1658 had stripped the kingdom of its Scanian territories and nearly ended Danish independence entirely. The 1667 speciedaler was struck just nine years after that humiliation, during a period when the crown was actively consolidating absolute monarchy, formalized by the Kongeloven of 1665, the first codified absolutist constitution in European history.
The speciedaler denomination itself tracked the Holy Roman Empire's reichsthaler standard, a deliberate alignment meant to facilitate trade across the Sound and reassert Danish commercial relevance after the territorial losses.