4 Skilling - Christian III Ribe

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.