1 Cash - Frederik VI

Danish India's Tranquebar settlement had been minting cash coins since the late 17th century, operating a local copper coinage that functioned almost entirely outside the Danish metropolitan monetary system. By Frederik VI's reign the settlement was commercially marginal — the Danish crown sold Tranquebar to the British East India Company in 1845 after decades of dwindling trade revenues. The cash denominations struck during this window represent some of the final issues from what was always a precarious colonial outpost.