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1 Skilling Dansk - Frederik VI
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1808-1819 |
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| Value | 1 Skilling (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the interlaced royal cypher of Frederik VI rendered in elegant cursive script, surmounted by a large royal crown with cross finial. The numeral VI appears beneath the cypher, identifying the monarch's regnal number. The design is unlettered, with the monogram occupying nearly the full flan in a refined neoclassical style. |
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| Reverse description | Denomination and date arranged in four horizontal lines across the field, reading: a large Roman numeral I flanked by six-pointed rosette ornaments on the first line, followed by SKILLING, DANSK., and the date 1809., with the mintmaster's initials M.F. on the lowest line. The layout is bold and typographic, with no surrounding legend or decorative border beyond the coin's milled edge. |
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Frederik VI issued this coin during one of the most economically ruinous periods in Danish history. The Napoleonic Wars had left Denmark allied with France, a choice that cost the country its fleet — seized by Britain in 1807 at Copenhagen — and eventually Norway, ceded to Sweden in 1814. The state bank collapsed in 1813, and a formal national bankruptcy was declared that same year. Billon coinage of this type circulated against a backdrop of catastrophic currency devaluation, with paper money losing most of its face value almost immediately upon issue.