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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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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID • IIII • D • G • REX • DAN • NOR • V • G |
| Reverse description | Central device depicting the crowned lion of Norway passant rampant to the right, holding a crescent-bladed halberd (bardisan) in its forepaw, set within a beaded inner circle above the date 1704 and flanked by the denomination mark '6' to the left and 'M' to the right. A continuous Danish-language commemorative legend in two concentric registers encircles the central device, celebrating the virtues of loyalty, bravery, and the fame of the Norwegian people throughout the entire world. The inscription reads: AERE • MOD • TROSKAB • DAPPERHED • OG • HVAD • DER • GIVER • KLIPPER • LÆRE • DEN • HEELE • VERDEN • KAND • BLANT • NORSKE. The reverse commemorates King Frederik IV's royal visit to Norway in 1704 and was struck as a so-called Rejsedaler (travel dollar) to mark the occasion. |
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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.