Frederik III struck these coins during the opening years of what would become the most existential crisis in Danish history. Sweden's Karl X Gustav launched his invasion in 1657, crossing the frozen Belts in a winter march that stunned Europe and forced Denmark to the catastrophic Peace of Roskilde — surrendering the Scanian provinces and permanently redrawing the map of Scandinavia. Coins minted at the tail end of this type's production window circulated into a kingdom that had just lost roughly a third of its territory.
The Type IIB designation within the Dav EC II series distinguishes this issue by specific die characteristics within a complex emission sequence that numismatists spent decades untangling.
Frederik III struck these coins during the opening years of what would become the most existential crisis in Danish history. Sweden's Karl X Gustav launched his invasion in 1657, crossing the frozen Belts in a winter march that stunned Europe and forced Denmark to the catastrophic Peace of Roskilde — surrendering the Scanian provinces and permanently redrawing the map of Scandinavia. Coins minted at the tail end of this type's production window circulated into a kingdom that had just lost roughly a third of its territory.
The Type IIB designation within the Dav EC II series distinguishes this issue by specific die characteristics within a complex emission sequence that numismatists spent decades untangling.