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2 Skilling - Christian IV
| Issuer | Kongsberg Mint |
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| Year | 1643-1648 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central field carries the denomination inscription arranged in four lines: II / SKILI / NGDA / NSK, reading together as II SKILINGDANSK (2 Danish Skilling), all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The outer legend, separated by a second beaded ring, reads NOR·VAN·GOTO·REX·1648, completing the royal titles as King of Norway, of the Wends and the Goths, with the date 1648 incorporated into the legend. A small cross or mark of value punctuates the legend. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, consistent with the hammered technique employed at Kongsberg Mint during this period. |
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Christian IV's later coinage was struck under increasingly desperate fiscal conditions — Denmark had emerged from the Torstenson War (1643–45) badly weakened, with Swedish forces having raided Jutland and the royal treasury under serious strain. Kongsberg, the silver mining town that gave the mint its name and much of its purpose, was by this period producing ore whose yields were declining from the bonanza years of the 1620s and 1630s. The billon composition of these small skilling pieces reflects that squeeze directly.
Christian died in 1648, the final year of this issue's production run.