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1 Krone - Margrethe II
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1973-1989 |
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| Weight | 6.8 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Queen Margrethe II in right-facing profile, her hair elegantly dressed in a chignon with decorative pins, engraved in a finely detailed modern style by Frode Bahnsen. The truncation of the neck is clean and unadorned. The circular legend MARGRETHE II DANMARKS DRONNING runs along the upper periphery, while the mint master's initials and mint mark S♥B appear at the base of the portrait in the lower field. A raised inner rim frames the design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Denmark's 1973 coinage reform was triggered by the country's entry into the European Economic Community that January, prompting a wholesale redesign of the circulating series to modernize the currency's appearance under the new reign. The krone had already shed its silver content years earlier, but this issue formalized the post-decimalization aesthetic that would carry through nearly two decades of circulation.
Margrethe II had acceded only in January 1972, making these among the earliest coins to bear her effigy in regular circulation.