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25 Øre - Christian IX
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1874-1905 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 ØRE |
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Denmark's adoption of the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1873 — a currency agreement between Denmark, Sweden, and Norway pegged to a shared gold standard — made this small silver issue necessary as the kingdom realigned its coinage system. The øre denominations replaced the earlier rigsdaler structure entirely, and the .600 fine silver specification for the 25 øre was a deliberate compromise between durability and bullion economy for a coin expected to see heavy everyday use.
The series ran across three decades and multiple die varieties, with specimens from the 1870s tending to show harder, crisper strikes than later issues as die preparation standards shifted.