8 Skilling - Christian IV Type B, mintmark on both sides

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.