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1 Løn
| Issuer | Freetown Christiania |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 LØN |
| Edge | Plain |
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Freetown Christiania, the self-declared autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen established by squatters in 1971 on a former military base, issued its own coinage intermittently as an assertion of communal independence from Danish society. The Løn series was never legal tender and circulated only within the community's internal barter economy. Denmark's government tolerated the enclave's existence through decades of uneasy negotiation, with periodic crackdowns and a landmark 2011 agreement that allowed residents to collectively purchase the land.
X#38 places this squarely in the Krause world coins catalogue's "Notgeld and necessity" classification.