Catalog
2 Skilling - Christian III Ribe
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1536 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1513-1572) |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter length armored effigy of King Christian III facing right, holding a sword in his right hand and a scepter in his left. The royal bust divides the inner legend and breaks a beaded inner ring. A circular Latin inscription runs between the inner and outer beaded rings along the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1536 - `CRISTIAN` on obverse - 1536 - `CRISTIANI` on obverse - |
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Christian III struck this issue in the same year he formally established Lutheranism as Denmark's state religion — a consolidation of royal and ecclesiastical power that ended decades of civil war known as the Count's Feud. The Ribe mint, one of Denmark's oldest, was operating under renewed royal authority following that conflict, during which monetary production had been severely disrupted by competing factions.
Billon coinage of this transitional moment circulated into a kingdom still reorganizing its institutions after the imprisonment of the Catholic bishops in 1536.