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24 Skilling Dansk - Frederik V King's monogram
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1750-1764 |
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| Diameter | 29.4 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a tall, ornately shaped crowned shield bearing the quartered arms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, adorned with a band suspending the badge of the Order of the Elephant. The shield is inclined slightly to the right in the Baroque heraldic tradition, with the date split to either side of the shield in the field. The denomination and mint designation appear in the surrounding circular Latin legend, separated by decorative stops, with the mintmaster's initials also incorporated into the legend. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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The 24 skilling denomination sat at the upper end of everyday Danish coinage in the mid-eighteenth century, and Frederik V's reign was marked by the kind of fiscal pressure that made billon and debased silver a recurring administrative compromise. The .562 fineness here is notably low for a coin of this face value — honest silver it is not, reflecting the chronic shortage of specie that plagued Copenhagen's treasury throughout the Seven Years' War period.
KM#582 spans fourteen years of production, and die marriages across that run vary considerably in quality and alignment.