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2 Mark - Frederik IV
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1700 |
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| Currency | Speciedaler (1523-1746) |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of King Frederik IV facing right, with long flowing curly hair in the late Baroque style. The king is depicted in military dress with ornate pauldron detail visible at the shoulder. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy reading FRID·IV·D·G·DAN·NOR·VA·GO·REX, denoting his titles as King of Denmark, Norway, the Vandals and Goths. The field is clean and the portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail characteristic of early 18th-century Scandinavian coinage. The coin's border is formed by a continuous milled denticular rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | DOMINUS·MIHI·ADIUTOR |
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Frederik IV had been king of Denmark-Norway for just two years when this coin was struck, and the date places it squarely in the opening phase of the Great Northern War — a conflict that would drain Norwegian silver reserves and reshape Baltic power for a generation. The 2 Mark denomination sat at a practical middle tier of Danish-Norwegian coinage, heavily used in merchant settlements along the western Norwegian coast.
The Kongsberg mint, opened in 1686 to process silver from the Numedal mines, was the exclusive source for Norwegian silver coinage of this period. Kongsberg ore fineness drove the .833 standard rather than any deliberate policy choice.