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1749, Kingdom of Norway, Frederick V. Scarce Silver 24 Skilling Coin. VF+

Mint year: 1749 References: KM-236. Denomination: 24 Skilling Mint Master: Truls Andersen Lyng (TL) Condition: A well circulated VFü with minor deposits! Material: Silver (.562) Diameter: 28mm Weight: 8.68gm

Obverse: Crowned monogram of Ferdinand V. Legend: D . G .  REX . DAN . - NORV . VA . GO .   Reverse: Crowned arms of Norway (rampart lion holding an axe with a long round handle). Legend: 24 . SKILLING * T x L *  DANSKE . 1749 .

Frederick V (31 March 1723 - 14 January 1766) was king of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1746 until his death, son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. "Prudentia et Constantia" (By prudence and steadfastness) was the motto he chose for his reign.

Frederick was born on 31 March 1723 at Copenhagen Castle. He was the grandson of King Frederick IV of Denmark and the son of Crown Prince Christian and Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. On 12 October 1730, King   Frederick IV died and Frederick's father ascended the throne as King   Christian VI. Frederick himself became Crown Prince.

Christian VI and Sophia Magdalene were deeply devoted to Pietism,   and Frederick was given a strictly religious upbringing. Although not   unfamiliar with religious sentiments, Frederick grew into a hedonist who enjoyed the pleasures of life such as wine and women.

He was first married at Altona, Holstein, on 11 December 1743 to Princess Louise of Great Britain, daughter of King George II and Caroline of Ansbach. They were the parents of six children, but one was stillborn. Louise died on 19 December 1751 at Christiansborg Palace, predeceasing her husband by fourteen years, and was buried at Roskilde Cathedral. At the time of her death, she was pregnant with her seventh child, who also died.

Frederick married a second time at Frederiksborg Palace on 8 July 1752 to Frederick the Great of Prussia's sister-in-law Duchess Juliana Maria of Brunswick-WolfenbÃÆ'¼ttel, daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-LÃÆ'¼neburg. Their notable child was the Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway, who was, in his turn, father of King Christian VIII of Denmark and grandfather of Louise of Hesse, the future queen of Denmark. She died in 1796 having been regent for her son Prince Frederick.

King Frederick was also the father of five illegitimate children by Else Hansen.

The personal influence of Frederick was limited. He was afflicted by   alcoholism and most of his rule was dominated by very able ministers   like A. G. Moltke, J. H. E. Bernstorff and H. C. Schimmelmann marking his reign by the progress of commerce and the emerging industry of gunpowder plant and cannon foundry in FrederiksvÃÆ'¦rk, built by Johan Frederik Classen. They also avoided involving Denmark in the European wars of his time. The country remained neutral even for the duration of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), despite its proximity to combatants Russia and Sweden.

In the same period was created the Royal Frederiks Hospital and the Royal Orphanage (Det kgl. Opfostringshus) a school intended for poor boys that still exists today, opened in Christianshavn on 1 October 1753. On 29 June 1753 Frederick V created Denmark's first   lottery called the Royal Copenhagen Lottery, a lottery that still exists   to this day as Klasselotteriet.

Art and science were in good conditions under Frederick V, public   entertainment and freedom of expression which had been banned under his Pietist father's reign, was again permitted, and in 1748 Nicolai Eigtved's Komediehus (Playhouse) on Kongens Nytorv was opened, he also founded the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) in Copenhagen, which officially opened on 31 March 1754, his 31st birthday. Frederick purchased what would become known as the Danish West Indies from the Danish West India Company in 1754.

The Norwegian Masonic historian Karl Ludvig TÃÆ'¸rrisen Bugge claim that Frederik V as crown prince was included in the Copenhagen   Masonic Lodge St. Martin. This was probably third June 1744, and   inspired by the Prussian king Frederick the Great which were also included in a masonic lodge in his youth. They both had   fathers who were violently opposed to the Masons, but unlike the   Prussian king, Frederik V never published his membership of the lodge.

As an active Freemason, he set up on 24 June 1749 the first Masonic lodge in Norway.

The king died at the age of 42, and after twenty years of reign. His   last words were reportedly: "It is a great consolation to me in my last   hour that I have never wilfully offended anyone and that there is not a   drop of blood on my hands."

King Frederick V is interred in Roskilde Cathedral next to Queen Louise.

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