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1 Skilling - Christian III
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1543-1546 |
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| Value | 1 Skilling (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRIS TIANVS 3 D G DANIE NOR (Translation: Christian III, by Gods Grace, (King of), Denmark and Nor(way)) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian III, who had consolidated Lutheran Protestantism as Denmark-Norway's state religion by royal decree in 1537, used the coinage of the 1540s partly as an instrument of administrative unification. Norway at this point had been reduced from a kingdom to a Danish province in all but name — a demotion formalized in 1536 — and the skilling issues of this period reflect the currency standardization that followed. Skaare 325 is documented across a narrow four-year window, suggesting either a specific fiscal need or a single contracted minting run.