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3 Skilling Lybsk - Christian IV
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1623-1625 |
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| Currency | Glückstadt - Speciedaler (1617-1773) |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a nude female personification of Fortuna standing atop a globe, her body turned and gaze directed to the left, holding a long billowing banner or veil extended behind her. The figure is partially contained within a beaded inner circle, with the mint legend distributed around the outer rim. The date appears at the conclusion of the legend, varying by year of issue. The legend reads MO·NO: C | I · GLV followed by a date numeral, abbreviated for 'Moneta Nova Civitatis Gluckstadiensis' (New coin of the city of Glückstadt). The composition is characteristic of early Baroque allegorical coinage produced at the Glückstadt mint. |
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| Mintage | 1623 - MO:NO:C | I:GLV Z3 - ND (1623-1625) - MO:NO: C | I:GLVC: - 1624 - MO:NO | C:GL Z4 - 1624 - MO:NO | C:GLV Z4 - 1625 - MO:NO | C:GL Z5 - 1625 - MO:NO | C:GLV Z5 - 1625 - MO:NO | CI:GL Z5 - |
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The skilling lybsk — "lübisch" — was a monetary unit tied to the currency system of Lübeck, adopted by Denmark as part of a broader northern European accounting convention that persisted long after Lübeck's commercial dominance had begun to fade. Christian IV's prolific minting activity in the 1620s was driven partly by the costs of his interventions in the Thirty Years' War, a venture that would eventually end in Danish military humiliation at the hands of Wallenstein's imperial forces by 1629.
The four Lange reference numbers reflect documented die variants across the issue's three-year run — not unusual given the volume Christian IV's mints pushed through during this period.