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⅔ Thaler - Frederick V of Dänemark
| Issuer | Oldenburg, County of |
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| Year | 1761-1765 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Frederick V, King of Denmark, facing right, with powdered wig and queue. The portrait is rendered in a refined Baroque style with fine detail in the drapery at the shoulder. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy reading FRIDERICVS V D G REX D N V G DVX S H S D COM O D B, separated by pellet stops. The mint mark B appears below the bust at the base of the coin within the beaded inner border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 2/3 Thaler denomination — effectively equivalent to the North German Gulden — was a workhorse of regional commerce in the mid-eighteenth century, accepted across fragmented German monetary territories where the full Thaler remained too large for everyday transactions. Oldenburg's issues under Frederick V circulated within a county that was, by 1761, a personal possession of the Danish crown rather than a meaningfully autonomous polity.
The Hede 2D classification places this among the documented varieties catalogued in Hede's exhaustive work on Danish and Oldenburg coinage. The Kalv/Schr 324a reference further distinguishes it within the die study literature.