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1 Skilling Dansk - Frederik VI
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1812 |
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| Value | 1 Skilling (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | * I * SKILLING DANSK• 1812• M•F• |
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Denmark's finances were in ruins by 1812. The Napoleonic Wars had severed British trade routes, the state had declared bankruptcy in 1813 — one year after this coin was struck — and copper small change was being issued against a backdrop of collapsing confidence in Danish paper currency. These copper skillings circulated heavily out of pure necessity, which makes clean survivors harder to find than mintage figures alone would suggest.