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1 Søsling - Frederik III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1651 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination and national designation are inscribed in four horizontal lines across the field, reading '1 SØSLING DANSKE', with the date 1651 split across the fourth line and divided at centre by the Copenhagen mint mark (h). A decorative star or rosette appears at the commencement of the legend. The reverse is entirely typographic with no pictorial device, typical of small-denomination Danish copper issues of the period. |
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Frederik III issued copper søslinge beginning in 1651, partly to address a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had plagued Danish commerce since the Thirty Years' War disrupted normal trade flows through the Baltic. The søsling — worth half a skilling — was the smallest unit in regular circulation, handling transactions that silver simply couldn't reach economically.
KM#176 is known with considerable variation in flan quality across the run, a predictable consequence of working with rolled copper strip of inconsistent thickness at the Copenhagen mint during this period.