2 Skilling Dansk - Frederik II Copenhagen mint

Frederik II inherited a Danish monetary system still adjusting to the coinage reforms of his father Christian III, who had worked to regularize denominations following decades of debased and inconsistent production. The skilling in billon was very much a working coin — struck for everyday trade in a kingdom whose economy ran heavily on Baltic herring commerce and the tolls extracted at Øresund, which at their peak generated roughly a third of the Danish crown's income.

The Copenhagen mint's output in the early 1560s was uneven in quality, a known characteristic of the period rather than a strike anomaly specific to any single die.