4 Skilling Dansk - Christian IV

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.