2 Speciedaler - Frederik III

Frederik III issued these heavy silver pieces during a period when Denmark-Norway was clawing back from the catastrophic losses of the Roskilde Peace of 1658, which had stripped the kingdom of its Swedish-facing provinces and left the crown financially desperate. The speciedaler series was part of a broader effort to project fiscal solvency the treasury did not actually possess.

The Rønning subcategories 39b and 39d indicate distinct die marriages within this short emission window — a detail that matters more than the date range suggests, as documented die combinations for this type are few and specimens turn up rarely outside Scandinavian collections.