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1 Penning - Christopher II Flower
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1330-1335 |
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| Value | 1 Penning |
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| Obverse description | Three crescents arranged radially around a central pellet, each crescent separated by a single pellet in the field. The design is rendered in a simple, primitive hammered style characteristic of medieval Danish bracteate coinage, with the crescents pointing outward from the center. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christopher II spent much of his reign either deposed or politically neutralized by German creditors to whom the Danish crown had mortgaged vast territories. By 1330 he had been restored to a shadow of his former authority, ruling a kingdom so financially compromised that the nobility and church held more practical power than the throne. Coins struck in his name during this terminal phase of his reign are sparse survivors of a mint operating under genuine fiscal duress.