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1/2 Skilling Rigsmønt - Christian IX
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The denomination '1/2' is rendered in a large numeral within a horizontally lined inner circle at the centre of the field. The surrounding legend reads '1/2 * SKILLING * RIGSMONT *', disposed in a circular arrangement outside the lined circle, separated by six-pointed star stops. |
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| Mint | ♔ Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt), Copenhagen, Denmark (1739-date) |
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By 1868, Denmark was minting coins under the shadow of a humiliating territorial loss — the Second Schleswig War of 1864 had stripped roughly a third of the kingdom's land and population, including the Duchy of Schleswig's own mint at Altona. Production consolidated under Copenhagen, and these small bronze issues were among the first fractional coinages struck entirely under the reorganized post-war monetary administration. The ½ Skilling Rigsmønt denomination itself was already obsolescent; Denmark would adopt a decimal krone-based system just five years later in 1873, rendering the entire skilling series redundant almost immediately after these were struck.