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1 Skilling Dansk - Christian VII
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1771-1779 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the denomination and mint particulars in five horizontal lines across the central field, reading: numeral '1' flanked by ornamental rosette stops at top, followed by 'SKILLING', 'DANSKE', 'K · M ·', and the date '1771 ·'. A small ornamental stop appears at the bottom of the field beneath the date. The lettering is bold and upright in a serif Roman typeface, occupying the full width of the flan. The coin's edge shows a finely milled border encircling the entire design. |
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Christian VII's reign produced coinage under conditions of profound administrative dysfunction. The king was mentally incapacitated for most of his rule, and real authority shifted first to the reformist Johann Friedrich Struensee — who was arrested and executed in 1772 — and then to the conservative faction that reversed many of his reforms. The copper skilling issues of this period continued largely uninterrupted through these upheavals, the mint operating as a bureaucratic constant while the court above it collapsed into faction and crisis.
KM#616 spans the Struensee years and their immediate aftermath.