2 Fanos - Frederik VI

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.