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8 Skilling - Christian III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1541 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse description | Crowned royal shield bearing the arms of Denmark centered over a long forked cross, the arms of the cross extending to the inner beaded circle and dividing the surrounding legend. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown in high relief. A beaded rim frames the entire design. The die work is characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Danish hammered coinage, with the legend distributed in the four quadrants formed by the cross. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Christian III consolidated Denmark's Lutheran Reformation in 1536, dissolving Catholic bishoprics and seizing church assets in a move that simultaneously resolved a crippling royal debt and reshaped the kingdom's institutional structure permanently. The coinage issued in the years immediately following reflects a treasury flush with confiscated ecclesiastical wealth — production was substantial, and the king used new coin types to project reformed royal authority across his domains.
Hede 4A is among the earlier documented varieties for this denomination under Christian III, with the 1541 date placing it squarely in the mid-reign consolidation period before the monetary pressures of the Count's War aftermath had fully resolved.