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1 Skilling - Christian VI
| Issuer | Danish West Indies (1730-1917) |
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| Year | 1740 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | NORV·VAN·G·D·GREX·DAN· C6 (Translation: Christian VI by the grace of God King of Denmark and Norway, the Wends and the Goths) |
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Christian VI authorized a dedicated copper coinage for the Danish West Indian colonies in the 1730s, a rare administrative acknowledgment that the plantation economy of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John required its own circulating money rather than the chaotic mix of Spanish, Dutch, and miscellaneous European coin that merchants were already accepting by weight and convention. The 1 Skilling of 1740 is among the earliest pieces struck specifically for this colonial circuit.
KM#2 is notoriously poorly struck on planchets that were often irregular in thickness, and genuine examples almost never show full, even surfaces — not from circulation, but from the mint itself.