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2 Frederik d'Or - Frederik VI Type 3
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1836-1839 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#713, Fr#288 |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Frederik VI of Denmark in right-facing profile, rendered in high relief with finely engraved hair swept back from the forehead. The truncation of the neck is plain, with the engraver's initials C.C. incused below. The circumferential Latin legend reads FREDERICUS VI REX DANIÆ, divided by the portrait and running along the inner border of the toothed rim. |
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| Mintage | 1836 - Km# 713.1 - 1837 - Km# 713.1 - 1838 - Km# 713.1 - 1838 - Km# 713.2 - 1839 - Km# 713.1 - |
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Frederik VI had already been ruling Denmark for over two decades by the time this type entered production, his reign shaped almost entirely by catastrophe — the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807, the loss of Norway to Sweden in 1814, and a state bankruptcy in 1813 that collapsed Danish public credit for a generation. Gold coinage of this period circulated primarily among merchants and the financial class; ordinary Danes saw little of it. The Frederik d'Or series itself was modeled on the French Louis d'Or tradition, a deliberate signal of continental monetary respectability from a kingdom still rebuilding its fiscal standing.
Fr#288 distinguishes this as the third type within the series, differentiated by die characteristics refined across a four-year production window ending the year before Frederik's death in 1839.