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10 Øre - Christian IX
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1874-1905 |
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| Weight | 1.45 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1874 - KM#795.1 - 8,975,000 1875 - KM#795.1 - 1,387,000 1882 - KM#795.1 - 1,057,000 1884 - KM#795.1 - 1,019,000 1886 - KM#795.1 - 508,000 1888 - KM#795.1 - 306,000 1889 - KM#795.1 - 1,030,000 1891 - KM#795.1 - 1,507,000 1894 - KM#795.2 - 1,521,000 1897 - KM#795.2 - 2,044,000 1899 - KM#795.2 - 2,049,999 1903 - KM#795.2 overdate variety exists - 3,007,000 1904 - KM#795.2 - 2,449,000 1905 - KM#795.2 - 1,571,000 |
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Denmark's adoption of the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1873 — alongside Sweden and Norway — forced a wholesale recoinage, replacing the old rigsdaler system with the krone. This 10 øre was among the first issues produced under the new decimal framework, struck in a deliberately low-silver billon alloy that reflected the subsidiary coinage norms the union had agreed upon for small denominations.
Christian IX's reign saw Denmark still absorbing the political humiliation of the 1864 Second Schleswig War, in which Prussia and Austria stripped roughly a third of Danish territory. The monarchy was fragile in public standing, which lends even routine circulation coinage from this period an understated political weight.