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5 Ducats - Frederik III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1665 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler specie (1625-1813) |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of King Frederik III facing right, wearing a laurel wreath in his long flowing hair, clad in decorated plate armor with pauldron and a cravat visible at the neck. The effigy occupies the majority of the field, rendered in high relief with fine baroque engraving detail. The circumferential Latin legend reads FRIDERIC 3 D G DAN NOR VAN GOT REX, separated by ornamental stops, within a beaded inner border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederik III's reign saw Denmark shift decisively toward absolute monarchy — formally codified in the Kongelov of 1665, the same year this piece was struck. The timing is not coincidental. Large gold multiples like this five-ducat piece were instruments of royal prestige, distributed as gifts to foreign diplomats and court favorites rather than circulated. The Kongelov made the Danish crown hereditary and the king's authority explicitly unlimited, and the coins produced in that year carried the weight of that assertion.
KM#322 is among the scarcer Danish gold issues of the period, with surviving examples almost exclusively found in cabinet condition owing to their non-circulating function.