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4 Skilling Klipping - Christian III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1535 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 3·5 |
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Christian III issued this klipping in 1535 while the Count's War (Grevens Fejde) was still grinding toward its conclusion — a civil conflict that had left Copenhagen besieged and the Danish treasury under severe strain. Emergency square-cut coinage of this type was a direct consequence of that fiscal pressure, struck rapidly from crudely cut silver blanks rather than properly rolled planchets.
The klipping format was already considered archaic by this point, and Christian III abandoned it shortly after consolidating power.