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2 Fanos - Frederik VI
| Issuer | Danish India |
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| Year | 1816-1818 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Danish India's Tranquebar settlement issued this coin during a period of acute financial strain — Frederik VI had inherited a Danish state bankrupted by the Napoleonic Wars, and the 1813 state insolvency had left colonial minting operations underfunded and intermittent. The Tranquebar mint ran sporadically as a result, which accounts for the three-year production window compressed into what is effectively a tiny total output.
Denmark sold Tranquebar to the British East India Company in 1845, ending over two centuries of Danish presence on the Coromandel Coast.