1 Thaler - Christian V

Christian V's reign saw Denmark still absorbing the trauma of the Scanian War (1675–1679), which had ended with French diplomatic pressure forcing Sweden's territorial restoration despite Danish battlefield successes. The 1683 thaler was struck at a moment of enforced peace — one that left the Danish crown financially strained and politically humiliated, having fought well and gained nothing.

Davenport's EC II classification places this piece within the north German thaler tradition Denmark maintained for large silver coinage throughout the late seventeenth century, largely to facilitate trade with Hamburg and the Baltic merchants who refused lesser denominations.