[1] The circlet is ornamented with six sets of table cut diamonds between two large round pearls with enameled putti on either side.

The six smaller points each bears a star-like design in triangular and square table diamonds with a large pear shaped pearl at its top.

He succeeded to the throne, but as he was still underage, a regency council was set up to serve as the trustees of the royal power while Christian was still growing up.

The new crown was made in the Odense workshop of Dirich Fyring [da] (1580–1603) with assistance from the Nuremberg goldsmith Corvinianus Saur during the years 1595–1596.

[3] In December 1595, Christian IV traveled to Skanderborg Castle by way of Kalundborg and Aarhus, using the ferry service which he himself had set up.

[1] On 29 August 1596, Christian IV was crowned at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen by the Bishop of Zealand, Peder Jensen Vinstrup (1549–1614).

[1] During the Torstenson War, when Denmark was again on the verge of bankruptcy, Christian IV had his crown and other royal regalia once again pawned as security for a 15,000 rigsdaler loan from Gabriel Marselis the Elder in Hamburg.