3 Skilling Lybsk - Christian IV

The skilling lybsk — "lübisch" — was a monetary unit tied to the currency system of Lübeck, adopted by Denmark as part of a broader northern European accounting convention that persisted long after Lübeck's commercial dominance had begun to fade. Christian IV's prolific minting activity in the 1620s was driven partly by the costs of his interventions in the Thirty Years' War, a venture that would eventually end in Danish military humiliation at the hands of Wallenstein's imperial forces by 1629.

The four Lange reference numbers reflect documented die variants across the issue's three-year run — not unusual given the volume Christian IV's mints pushed through during this period.