1 Sechsling

The 1851 Sechsling comes from a politically combustible moment: the First Schleswig War had just concluded in 1850, and Denmark reasserted control over the duchies after three years of armed revolt backed by German nationalist sentiment. This coin was struck under resumed Danish administration, part of a deliberate effort to reestablish institutional normalcy in territories that had, briefly, operated their own provisional government and minted their own coinage.

The duchy coinage series ended entirely within the decade, overtaken by the Second Schleswig War of 1864 and Prussia's subsequent annexation.