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5 Øre - Christian X
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the crowned royal cipher of King Christian X, consisting of the interlaced letters C and X in bold relief, surmounted by an elaborate Danish royal crown with jewelled arches and cross finial. Two small cross pommee devices flank the cipher at mid-field. The mint master's initials VBP and engraver's initials GJ, together with the date, appear along the lower border within a beaded inner circle. |
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| Mintage | 1918 VBP;GJ - KM#814.1a - 1,918,000 1919 HCN; GJ - KM#814.2a - 1,034,999 |
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Denmark shifted to iron coinage during 1918–1919 as a direct consequence of wartime metal shortages, despite the country's formal neutrality in World War I. The economic disruption of the conflict reached neutral states through trade blockades and commodity scarcity, forcing the Danish mint to abandon bronze. Iron coins from this window corrode aggressively, and survivors in any decent state of preservation are considerably scarcer than mintage figures suggest.