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2 Rigsbankskilling - Christian VIII
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1842 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#728 |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRISTIANVS VIII D:G:DANIÆ V:G:REX F.K. (Translation: Christian VIII by the Grace of God, King of Denmark, of the Goths and the Wends) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian VIII's reign was fiscally fraught from the outset — he inherited a Danish state still recovering from the Napoleonic-era bankruptcies that had forced the complete restructuring of the monetary system in 1813, replacing the old Rigsdaler with the Rigsbankdaler and introducing the Rigsbank denominations. The copper 2 Rigsbankskilling sat at the lowest practical tier of that reformed system, struck for everyday petty commerce at a moment when Danish public finances remained fragile and nationalist pressures in Schleswig-Holstein were already building toward the 1848 crisis that would consume his final months.