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Gold coin - Erik of Pommern Lund
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1397-1439 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | A bold plain cross pattee with broad, flat arms divides the reverse field into four equal quadrants, each left plain. A small rosette or multifoil ornament appears at the top of the cross, above the upper arm. The entire central device is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with the circumferential legend in uncial Latin letters occupying the outer zone. The legend HOnETA LVnDEnS identifies the mint as Lund, referencing the episcopal mint city in Scania. The hammered flan exhibits the characteristic irregular outline typical of medieval Scandinavian gold coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1397-1439) |
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Erik of Pomerania was crowned king of the Kalmar Union at Kalmar in 1397, uniting Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under a single monarch — the only time these three kingdoms shared a ruler by formal treaty. His gold coinage struck at Lund, then the archiepiscopal seat and most important ecclesiastical city in Scandinavia, reflects his deliberate effort to project royal authority through a mint with institutional prestige rather than purely commercial significance.
Erik was deposed by the Danish council in 1439 after decades of misrule and prolonged war with the Holstein counts and the Hanseatic League, which severely disrupted Baltic trade and drained royal revenues. Surviving gold from his reign is scarce for precisely that reason.