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1 Rigsbankdaler - Frederik VII
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1849-1851 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frederik VII's accession in 1848 coincided almost precisely with Denmark's signing of a new constitution — the June Constitution of 1849 — which transformed the kingdom from absolute monarchy to constitutional rule. These rigsbankdaler pieces were among the first Danish coins struck under that new political order, which makes them transitional in a strictly administrative sense: the Rigsbank itself had already been restructured into the Nationalbanken in 1818, and the currency system they denominated was already living on borrowed time before the krone reform of 1873 swept it away entirely.
The three-year window of this issue corresponds closely to the First Schleswig War, which Denmark was actively fighting through 1850.