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2 Kroner - Christian X King's Birthday
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRISTIAN X KONGE AF DANMARK N♥S (Translation: Christian X King of Denmark) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark Christian X's 75th birthday on September 26, 1945, this coin carries a significance that goes well beyond dynastic celebration. Denmark had been liberated from German occupation just four months earlier, and the king — who had remained in Copenhagen throughout the war, famously continuing his daily horseback rides through the city streets — had become the symbolic anchor of Danish national resistance. A commemorative coin bearing his portrait in the first autumn of peace was a deliberate act of collective exhale.
Christian X died the following year, making this the last commemorative struck in his honor during his lifetime.