1 Hvid - Christian I Malmo mint

Christian I came to the Danish throne in 1448 partly through dynastic accident — the Oldenburg line was chosen over competing claimants largely to resolve the political deadlock following Christopher of Bavaria's death without an heir. His reign was chronically cash-strapped; he famously pawned the Orkney and Shetland Islands to Scotland in 1468 as part of his daughter Margaret's dowry because he simply could not raise the funds any other way. Malmö, then a Danish city and one of the crown's most productive mints, struck these small silver hvid throughout that financially precarious reign.