8 Skilling Dansk - Christian V

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.