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1 Skilling - Frederik VI Copper Pattern
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1809 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned right-facing effigy of King Frederik VI, rendered as a bare-headed bust with a curved truncation at the shoulder. The portrait is executed in a neoclassical style, with the king's features depicted in high relief against a flat field. A continuous Latin legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederik VI had assumed full royal power in 1784 as crown prince regent, his father Christian VII being incapacitated by mental illness, and by 1809 Denmark was navigating the ruinous aftermath of the British bombardment of Copenhagen and the loss of its fleet in 1807. Currency reform proposals were circulating amid genuine fiscal strain. This copper piece was struck as a pattern — never adopted for circulation — during a period when the Danish monetary system was under serious pressure ahead of the state bankruptcy that would arrive in 1813.