Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
8 Skilling Dansk - Christian V
| Issuer | Denmark |
|---|---|
| Year | 1694-1697 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 3.057 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | C5 PIETATE | & | IVSTITIA (Translation: (With) Piety and justice) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1694 - KM#82.1 obverse lettering counterclockwise - 1694 - KM#82.2 obverse lettering clockwise - 1695 - KM#82.2 obverse lettering clockwise - 1697 - KM#82.2 obverse lettering clockwise - |
| Additional information |
Christian V's monetary reforms of the 1670s and 1680s restructured Danish coinage around the skilling courant system, but persistent silver shortages and the financial strain of the Scanian War's aftermath meant that billon and debased silver dominated much of his later reign. The .562 fineness of this issue reflects that compromise — enough silver to circulate with credibility, debased enough to stretch a constrained treasury.
Production across 1694–1697 coincided with the final years before Christian V's death in 1699, when court expenditure at Frederiksberg remained high despite depleted war revenues.