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1/2 Krone - Christian IV
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1618 |
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| Value | 1/2 Krone (⅜) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian IV's involvement in the Thirty Years' War, which Denmark entered formally in 1625, placed enormous fiscal strain on the crown throughout the late 1610s — the years this issue was produced. The half krone coinage of this period was part of a broader effort to maintain a credible silver currency while military expenditure was already climbing. Christian's Danish intervention ultimately ended in defeat at the Battle of Lutter in 1626, forcing territorial concessions under the Treaty of Lübeck in 1629.
KM#58 is among the more obtainable half krone types of his long reign, though examples with full, unclipped flans are not guaranteed.