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3 Ducats - Christian V
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1671 |
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| Currency | Ducat (1665-1680) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian V had not yet ascended the Danish-Norwegian throne when his father Frederik III used the 1661 coronation crisis to formalize absolute hereditary monarchy — the legal shift that made issues like this one expressions of unambiguous royal prerogative rather than negotiated privilege. This three-ducat piece was struck in the earliest years of Christian V's reign, before his own coronation in 1671, as the absolutist machinery of the dual kingdom was still being consolidated.
Norwegian gold multiples of this period survive in tiny numbers. The Rønning census documents only a handful of confirmed specimens.