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1 Skilling - Christian VII
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1779-1780 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler specie (1746-1814) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1779 HIAB - - 845,000 1780 HIAB - - 1,152,000 |
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Norway was under Danish rule throughout Christian VII's reign, and coinage issued in his name for Norwegian circulation was struck at the Kongsberg mint — the only mint operating in Norway at the time, powered by the silver mines that had defined the region's economy since the 1620s. The skilling denominations of this period were produced in billon so debased that the silver content was largely nominal, reflecting chronic fiscal strain across the Dano-Norwegian realm during the latter eighteenth century.
Christian VII himself was declared legally incompetent by 1772, with actual governance passing first to his stepmother's faction and later to the Crown Prince. The coins bear his name; the decisions behind them were someone else's.