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10 Aurar - Christian X
| Issuer | Iceland |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1a, Schön#4a, SIEG#12, Hede#6 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 1942 C X R· (Translation: Christian 10, King) |
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Iceland struck zinc coinage in 1942 because the German occupation of Denmark had severed normal supply lines and strategic metals were unavailable. The shift from copper-zinc alloy to unalloyed zinc was a wartime expedient, not a monetary reform. Christian X, though king of an occupied Denmark, remained on Icelandic coinage — Iceland had only established its own government in 1940 and would not become a republic until 1944, when the union with Denmark was formally dissolved while the king sat under German house arrest in Copenhagen.