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1 Cash - Frederik III
| Issuer | Danish East India Company |
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| Year | 1648-1670 |
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| Value | 1 Cash (1 Kas) (1⁄80) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1648-1670) |
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The Danish East India Company's Tranquebar settlement on the Coromandel Coast used lead cash precisely because the metal was abundant, cheap to procure locally, and matched the small-denomination coinage already familiar to Indian traders. Frederik III came to the Danish throne in 1648 following the death of his father Christian IV, inheriting a state nearly bankrupted by the disastrous wars with Sweden — the Company's Indian operations were one of the few revenue streams still functioning.
Lead coinage of this type circulated almost exclusively within Tranquebar itself. Few examples survived in collectible condition; the metal corrodes aggressively in tropical humidity.