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8 Skilling - Christian IV Type B, mintmark on both sides
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1644 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the denomination and inscription are arranged in four lines across the field: VIII / SKILLI / NG:DA / NSK, with the surrounding legend continuing the royal titles and the date 1644 incorporated into the outer inscription. A beaded border frames the outer rim. The layout is characteristic of the Type B emission with mintmark present on both faces. |
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Christian IV's Norwegian coinage of the 1640s was struck under considerable fiscal pressure — Denmark-Norway had been bleeding money through the Torstenson War with Sweden, which erupted in late 1643 and went badly from the start. The mintmark placement on both sides of this type is an administrative distinction within the Christiania mint's output, separating die marriages for record-keeping purposes that modern scholars have since formalized across the Rønning and Brekke references.
Christian lost direct control of several Norwegian territories under the Peace of Brömsebro in 1645, signed just a year after this coin was struck.