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3 Skilling - Frederik VI Rigsbank Token
| Issuer | Rigsbanken (Denmark) |
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| Year | 1815 |
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| Value | 3 Rigsbankskilling (1⁄32) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1815 |
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Denmark's Rigsbank was established in 1813 as a direct consequence of state bankruptcy — the Napoleonic Wars had destroyed royal finances, and the old Riksbank was liquidated with creditors receiving a fraction of their claims. These copper token issues of 1815 were emergency fiduciary instruments, not struck on royal authority but on that of the new institution, which is why they bear Rigsbanken's name rather than the crown's. The distinction mattered legally and politically.
Frederik VI had ceded Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel just the year before, an amputation of territory that left Denmark economically diminished precisely when monetary reconstruction demanded the most.