10 Cash - Christian VIII

Struck at the Tranquebar mint, this issue dates from the final years of Danish colonial presence in India. Denmark sold its Indian possessions — Tranquebar and Serampore — to the British East India Company in 1845, making 1842 among the last years any Danish colonial coinage was produced on the subcontinent. The colony had been economically marginal for decades by this point, sustained largely by trade concessions rather than genuine commercial vitality.

The cash denomination was adopted specifically to compete with indigenous and British coinage already circulating in the region. Three years after this piece left the mint, the entire Danish India enterprise was gone.