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1 Cash - Christian IV
| Issuer | Danish East India Company |
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| Year | 1648-1670 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#13 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Danish East India Company established its trading post at Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) on the Coromandel Coast in 1620, and the lead cash issues produced there were never intended to circulate beyond the immediate factory settlement. Lead was chosen not for its monetary prestige but because it was cheap, locally workable, and the indigenous population on the Coromandel Coast was already familiar with base-metal cash coinage through Mughal and local South Indian issues.
Christian IV died in 1648, so the upper date range reflects continued use of his royal authority well into the reign of Frederick III — a colonial accounting convenience rather than any formal regal attribution.