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2 Speciedaler - Frederik III
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1649-1650 |
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| Value | 2 Speciedaler |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1649 - 4 known - 1650 - 12 known - |
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Frederik III issued these large silver pieces in the immediate aftermath of his accession in 1648, a reign that began under severe constraint — the Danish nobility had forced him to sign a haandfæstning stripping the crown of substantial fiscal and judicial authority. The speciedaler was the workhorse of Scandinavian international trade coinage, and a two-speciedaler piece was a significant instrument of state finance rather than everyday commerce.
Norway maintained its own mint at Christiania during this period, operating with considerable autonomy from Copenhagen. The 1649–1650 run corresponds almost exactly to the opening years before Frederik's dramatic reversal of fortune in 1660, when he abolished the elective monarchy and established hereditary absolutism — rendering coins struck under the old constitutional order a distinct historical bracket.