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Gold coin - Christian IV
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1588-1648 |
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| Currency | First Speciedaler (-1625) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian IV's reign of sixty years is the longest of any Danish monarch, but the coinage issued under his name spans an extraordinary range of monetary conditions — from the relative prosperity of the early seventeenth century through the ruinous Thirty Years' War, in which Denmark intervened disastrously in 1625 and was effectively knocked out by 1629 at Lübeck. War financing degraded much of the period's coinage, making well-preserved gold issues progressively harder to attribute to specific mint years without die study.
Fr#52 places this piece within Friedberg's Danish gold sequence at a weight consistent with the Christian d'or series.