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3 Speciedaler - Christian IV Bust type I, Oval provincial shields
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1624-1628 |
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| Value | 3 Speciedaler |
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| Obverse lettering | REGNA·FIR | MAT·PIETAS CHRISTIANUS·IIII D:G:DAN:NO:V:G REX D:S:H:S:D:C:OL:ET:D NS ☘ 1.6. | Z.4 (Translation: Piety strengthens the realms King Christian the Fourth, King of Denmark and Norway, the Goths and the Wends, duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, and Ditmarsh, count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian IV struck these large silver multiples during a period of genuine royal ambition — he was personally overseeing mint operations, had restructured Danish coinage through his 1619 monetary ordinance, and was preparing for what would become his disastrous intervention in the Thirty Years' War in 1625. The 3 Speciedaler was not a coin of daily commerce; pieces of this weight circulated primarily as prestige payment, diplomatic settlements, and war financing instruments.
The Bust Type I designation distinguishes this from later portrait revisions made as the decade wore on. Provincial shields in oval cartouches reflect the territorial claims Christian was still pressing — some of which he would lose, definitively, at the Peace of Lübeck in 1629.