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12 Skilling - Christian VI
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1740 |
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| Value | 12 Skilling (1/8) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian VI's reign saw Denmark locked into a mercantilist fiscal tightening, and the 12 skilling issues of the late 1730s and 1740s reflect repeated adjustments to the silver standard as the crown tried to stabilize a currency still recovering from the strains of earlier Northern War expenditure. The .500 fineness here is not a degradation — it was a deliberate policy set under the 1726 monetary ordinance that rationalized the subsidiary coinage.
KM#4 is among the scarcer skilling denominations from this reign, with relatively few surviving in collectible condition given its role as an actively spent coin in domestic trade.