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1 Skilling - Frederik IV Pattern
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark-Norway |
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| Year | 1720 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the elaborately interlaced royal cypher of Frederik IV, composed of two intertwined script letter Fs surmounted by a large open royal crown with arched bands and orb finial. The monogram is rendered in bold relief against a plain field, without a surrounding legend. The flan edge is irregular and slightly scalloped, consistent with the experimental nature of this pattern strike. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a fully inscribed denomination legend arranged in five horizontal lines across the field, reading: a rosette ornament, the numeral I, and a second rosette in the upper register; followed by SKILLING; then DANSKE; then the date 17 flanking a crossed-hammers mint mark and 20; and finally the mint-master initials HCM in the lower field. The lettering is bold and deeply incused, with the decorative rosette stops and the crossed-hammers privy mark of the Kongsberg Mint lending a formal character to this pattern piece. |
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Pattern coinage from Frederik IV's reign occupies an awkward archival space — struck for inspection or presentation rather than circulation, many pieces entered royal or noble collections immediately and never touched general commerce. The 1720 skilling denomination in gold is particularly anomalous: the skilling was an everyday copper coin, and replicating it in gold served no monetary purpose whatsoever.
Hede 8B is among the rarer pattern attributions in Danish numismatics, with confirmed examples countable in single digits across major collections.