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1 Løn
| Issuer | Christiania (Freetown Christiania) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 1 Løn |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a stylized figure seated cross-legged in a meditative pose, rendered in bold relief with an expressive, cartoonish character. The figure is surrounded by a large gear or cog wheel motif forming an inner border. A ribbon banner above the figure bears the legend THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS. The outer legend reads FRISTADEN CHRISTIANIA along the upper arc, with the date split as 20 and 19 flanking the sides, and the motto LEV OG LAD ANDRE LEVE (Live and Let Others Live) along the lower arc. The rim is plain. |
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| Obverse lettering | FRISTADEN CHRISTIANIA THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS 20 19 LEV OG LAD ANDRE LEVE |
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Freetown Christiania, the self-declared autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen established after squatters occupied a former military barracks in 1971, has issued its own currency intermittently as a deliberate assertion of independence from the Danish state. The Løn — the word means "wage" in Danish — was designed for internal circulation among the roughly 900 residents and the commune's collectively owned businesses. Denmark has tolerated Christiania's existence through decades of legal ambiguity, periodic police raids, and negotiated settlements, including a 2011 agreement that allowed residents to collectively purchase much of the land.
The 2019 issue postdates that purchase, giving this particular emission a different political weight than earlier ones.