24 Skilling - Christian VII

The Danish West Indies maintained a persistent coinage problem throughout the mid-18th century: Spanish dollars and their fractional cuts dominated everyday trade on St. Croix and St. Thomas, and the Danish crown struggled to assert any practical monetary presence in its Caribbean colonies. The 24 Skilling issue of 1766–67 was a direct attempt to address this, struck under Christian VII — who had only just ascended the throne — at a fineness deliberately calibrated to compete with circulating Spanish silver.

KM#10 is notably scarce. The two-year window of production was short, and attrition in a tropical colonial economy was brutal on silver coinage of this size.