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3 Speciedaler - Frederik III
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1659-1660 |
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| Value | 3 Speciedaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of King Frederik III, laureate with long flowing hair, facing right within a beaded inner circle. The royal effigy is rendered in high relief in the baroque style typical of mid-17th century Danish-Norwegian coinage. The surrounding legend, separated from the central design by a beaded border, runs continuously around the periphery, with an additional beaded ring along the outer rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIDERICUS·III·DG·DAN·NOR·VAN·GOTT·REX (Translation: Frederik III, by Gods grace, king of Denmark, Norway, the Wends and the Goths.) |
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Frederik III issued these heavy specie coins during the closing phase of the Dano-Swedish Wars, a period when the Danish-Norwegian crown was under existential military pressure. Charles X Gustav of Sweden had pushed deep into Jutland and briefly crossed the frozen belts to threaten Copenhagen itself in early 1658. The subsequent Treaty of Roskilde was among the most damaging in Danish history, stripping Norway of Trondheim — temporarily, as it turned out — and costing Denmark its Scanian provinces permanently.
The 1659–1660 dating places this coin squarely in the follow-on conflict, the Dano-Swedish War of 1658–1660, when Frederik III was scrambling to finance a defense and, ultimately, a partial recovery. Trondheim was retaken by Norwegian forces under Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve in 1660, just as this coin was being struck.