4 Mark Dansk - Christian V

Christian V came to the Danish throne in 1670 inheriting a monarchy freshly transformed by the 1665 Lex Regia, which codified absolute royal power more explicitly than virtually any other European constitution of the period. The 4 Mark denomination was a workhorse of Danish silver coinage in this era, but the specific 1676–1678 window coincides directly with the Scanian War against Sweden — a conflict that strained royal finances and drove significant mint activity as the crown needed hard currency to pay troops and service military debts.

The Dav EC II reference places this squarely within the emergency-adjacent production of that war period.