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12 Mark - Christian VII
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1781-1785 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Christian VII facing right, rendered in high relief in the neoclassical style, with powdered hair tied at the nape with a ribbon. The engraver's initial appears in the field below the truncation. The portrait is contained within a raised rim bearing a continuous Latin legend. The overall design reflects the refined court portraiture typical of late 18th-century Danish coinage. |
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| Mint | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt), Copenhagen, Denmark (1739-date) CHL Altona, Schleswig-Holstein,Germany DCL Altona, Schleswig-Holstein,Germany |
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The 12 mark denomination was a distinctly Danish accounting unit, equal to one krone courant, and this small gold issue belongs to Christian VII's reign — a period when the king's severe mental illness had rendered him functionally incapable of governing. Real power rested with his physician Johann Friedrich Struensee through 1772, and thereafter with the Council of State and later the king's son's regency apparatus. The coins bore his name and portrait throughout regardless.