2 Krone - Christian IV without star in legend

Christian IV was at the height of his ambitions in 1618–19, still a decade before the Thirty Years' War would drain the Danish treasury and expose the limits of his foreign policy. These large silver krone-series pieces were struck during a period of relative fiscal confidence, when Copenhagen's mint was producing high-denomination coinage in quantity to fund an assertive, interventionist court.

The "without star in legend" distinction separates this from closely related die states — a small but catalogistically meaningful difference that places it among several recognized varieties under the Davenport EC II listings.