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1 Cash - Christian IV AM/AGE/R
| Issuer | Danish East India Company |
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| Year | 1648 |
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| Value | 1 Cash (1 Kas) (1⁄80) |
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| Obverse lettering | DAN ISB ORG |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Danish East India Company's Tranquebar settlement on the Coromandel Coast was one of Denmark's few genuine colonial footholds in Asia, and its coinage was a practical necessity for petty trade where European silver was hoarded rather than spent. This lead cash was issued in the final year of Christian IV's reign — he died in February 1648 — making pieces dated to that year transitional between his administration and that of Frederick III.
Lead was chosen not for its prestige but because local bazaar transactions demanded low-denomination coins in quantity, and the metal was cheap enough to mint at a useful face value.