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1 Skilling - Christian III Ribe
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1536 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Reverse description | A crowned shield bearing the royal arms of Denmark occupies the central field, flanked on either side by the last two digits of the date (3 and 6), all within a beaded inner circle. A Latin legend encircles the composition between the inner beaded ring and an outer beaded border at the rim, identifying the coin as new money struck at the Ribe mint. |
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| Mintage | 1536 - `ET:` on obverse - 1536 - `ET:N` on obverse - |
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Christian III struck this issue in 1536, the same year he defeated the Catholic bishops in the Count's War and established Lutheranism as Denmark's state religion — dissolving episcopal power and seizing church properties in a single sweeping reorganization. The Ribe mint, one of Denmark's oldest, was active through this turbulent transition. Low silver content in billon issues of this type reflects the fiscal pressures of a prolonged civil conflict that had effectively bankrupted the crown.