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4 Skilling Dansk - Christian IV
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1630-1632 |
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| Value | 4 Skilling (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and crowned effigy of King Christian IV facing right, enclosed within a pearled inner circle. The king is depicted in three-quarter bust with visible armor detailing. The royal title legend runs along the outer rim in Latin characters, separated from the central design by the pearled border. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination IIII SKILLING DANSK inscribed in four lines across the central field, contained within a pearled inner circle. The outer legend carries the king's royal titles in abbreviated Latin, with the mint date and trefoil mintmark positioned along the lower rim. The layout is characteristic of early seventeenth-century Danish hammered coinage. |
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Christian IV struck these small silver skillings during a period of aggressive Danish involvement in the Thirty Years' War — a campaign that had already gone badly by 1629 when Denmark was forced to sign the Treaty of Lübeck, surrendering its ambitions in northern Germany. Coinage of this period reflects the fiscal strain of that defeat, with the crown managing silver content carefully across denominations.
KM#121 is known with minor die variations across the three-year run, a predictable consequence of the Copenhagen mint's output demands during postwar monetary reorganization.