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1 Skilling - Christian VII
| Issuer | Royal Norwegian Mint (Den Kongelige Mynt) |
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| Year | 1768-1770 |
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| Composition | Billon (.250 silver) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The numeral 1 at centre, flanked on each side by a decorative rosette, denoting the face value. The denomination legend SKILLING DANSKE is inscribed across the field. The date is divided on either side of the Kongsberg mint mark — the crossed hammers symbol of the Royal Norwegian Mint — with two digits appearing on each side. Below the date, the mintmaster's initials T.L. (Truls Andersen Lyng, mintmaster 1737–1769) or I.H.M. appear, identifying the responsible official for each year of issue. |
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Christian VII was nominally king but functionally absent — declared legally insane in 1771, he had already ceded effective control of the Danish-Norwegian state to Johann Friedrich Struensee by the time production of this issue closed. Struensee issued over 1,000 cabinet decrees in eighteen months before his arrest and execution in 1772. The skilling denominations struck in these years circulated through a kingdom governed, briefly, by a royal physician.