12 Skilling - Christian VI

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.