2 Frederik d'Or - Frederik VI Type 3

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.