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3 Ducats - Christian V Pattern
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1673 |
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| Currency | Ducat (1665-1680) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRISTIAN·5·D.G· REX· |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian V inherited the Danish-Norwegian throne in 1670 and moved quickly to consolidate absolute monarchy, formally codified in the Danish Law of 1683. Pattern issues from his early reign, like this piece, reflect the experimental monetary activity surrounding that consolidation — multiple denominations and compositions were tested as the crown rationalized its coinage across both kingdoms. A three-ducat piece in billon rather than gold is a fundamental contradiction in terms, which is precisely what marks this as a pattern: a trial of the die, not a serious monetary proposal.