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2 Rigsdaler - Christian IX Death and Accession
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| In circulation to | 1873 |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Christian IX with closely cropped hair, full sideburns, and a neat goatee, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and facial features in the naturalistic style of Harald Conradsen. The legend CHRISTIAN IX arcs along the upper left periphery, while the motto MED GUD (With God) appears vertically to the left of the portrait. The inscription KONGE AF DANMARK (King of Denmark) curves around the upper right, and FOR ÆRE OG RET (For Honour and Right) descends along the lower right. The date 1863 appears in the lower exergual area flanked by a crowned mint mark and the engraver's initials RH, all within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian IX ascended to the Danish throne on November 15, 1863, the same day his predecessor Frederick VII was buried — a coronation so entangled with mourning that the commemorative coinage had to serve double duty, marking both a death and an accession simultaneously. He was not the obvious heir; the succession had been engineered by the London Protocol of 1852, which imposed Christian of Glücksburg on Denmark largely to satisfy the European powers scrambling to stabilize the Schleswig-Holstein question.
It did not work. Within weeks of this coin's issue, Prussia and Austria invaded Schleswig. Denmark lost the war and ceded the duchies in 1864.