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6 Mark 'Rejsedaler' - Frederik IV Royal visit in Norway
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1704 |
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| Value | 6 Mark = 1 Reisedaler = 1 Rigsdaler |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID • IIII • D • G • REX • DAN • NOR • V • G |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frederik IV visited Norway in 1704 — the first Danish king to do so in over a century — and this coin was struck specifically to commemorate that royal progress. The "Rejsedaler," or travel dollar, was a category of Danish coinage issued to mark significant royal journeys, functioning partly as diplomatic currency and partly as a durable souvenir of the event. Two die varieties account for the KM 479.1 and 479.2 distinction, differing in minor details of the engraving rather than any change in authority or intent.
Norway was then a Danish dependency, not a sovereign kingdom in any practical sense, and the visit carried real political weight at a moment when Charles XII of Sweden was pressing hard across Scandinavia during the Great Northern War.