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1 Søsling - Frederik III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1651 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler specie (1625-1813) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1651 (h) |
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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.