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24 Skilling Dansk - Christian VII
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1767 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a tall, ornately garnished crowned coat of arms displaying the quartered arms of Denmark and Norway, encircled by the collar and pendant of the Order of the Elephant. The shield is flanked by the divided date at the left and right sides of the field. The denomination and currency designation appear as the surrounding legend, with mint officer initials and mint mark incorporated into the inscription. |
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Christian VII ascended the Danish throne in 1766, but his reign was almost immediately compromised by severe mental illness — likely schizophrenia — leaving actual governance to a succession of favourites, most infamously the royal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee, who effectively ruled Denmark from 1770 until his arrest and execution in 1772. This coin predates that constitutional crisis by just a few years, struck while the new king still nominally presided over court.
The .562 fineness places it within Denmark's established billon-adjacent silver standard of the period, notably debased compared to contemporary Swedish and German issues circulating in the same Baltic trade zone.