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5 Øre - Christian X German Occupation
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the large crowned royal cipher of King Christian X, the interlaced monogram CX surmounted by an ornate crown. The date 1941 is divided by the monogram, with '19' to the left and '41' to the right of the crown. The circular legend 'KONGE AF DANMARK' runs along the upper periphery. The mintmaster's initials 'N' and 'S', separated by a heart mintmark, appear at the base of the field below the monogram. |
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| Mintage | 1941 N♥S - - 16,984,000 |
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Germany's occupation of Denmark from April 1940 forced an immediate rethinking of Danish coinage. Copper and bronze were redirected toward the German war economy, and by 1941 Denmark had switched to aluminium for its minor denominations — a material with essentially no pre-war tradition in Danish coinage. The shift was not a Danish choice.
Production continued through 1945 under increasingly constrained conditions. Aluminium strikes from this occupation period are notoriously susceptible to corrosion and surface degradation, which makes genuinely clean survivors harder to find than raw mintage figures suggest.