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1 Cash - Christian VI Entwined
| Issuer | Danish East India Company |
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| Year | 1730-1746 |
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| Currency | Royalin (1730-1818) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the entwined royal cypher of King Christian VI of Denmark, with the letter C interlaced with the numeral 6 in a bold, stylized monogram. The cypher is surmounted by a royal crown rendered in a simple, archaic style consistent with hammered coinage of the period. The coin exhibits an irregular flan with no peripheral legend or border ornament, typical of small denomination cast or crudely struck copper issues of Danish India. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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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 the cash coinage struck there served local trade rather than any metropolitan agenda. Christian VI never visited his Indian territories, and the coins bearing his cipher circulated among populations for whom the Danish king was an entirely abstract authority.
The entwined monogram type ran through the full span of Christian VI's reign, ending with his death in 1746.