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4 Skilling - Christian III Ribe
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1535 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter length armored effigy of King Christian III facing right, holding a sword in the left hand. The bust breaks the inner beaded circle, with the head dividing the surrounding Latin legend. A second beaded ring frames the outer edge of the coin. The design is characteristic of early Danish Renaissance hammered coinage, rendered in a bold, somewhat crude style typical of Ribe mint production. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian III was not yet secure on the Danish throne in 1535 — the Count's Feud, a brutal civil war fought partly over the Reformation, was still grinding toward its conclusion at Lübeck. Ribe, one of Denmark's oldest episcopal cities, had been a mint town since the medieval period, and its output during these years reflects the monetary disruption of wartime: irregular production, degraded alloy, and provincial weight standards that rarely matched Copenhagen's expectations.
The Galster classification places this among the less commonly encountered Ribe issues from Christian III's early reign.