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8 Skilling Dansk - Frederik III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1669 |
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| Value | 8 Skilling (1⁄12) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ☘ VIII · | · SKILL · | · DANSK | · 1669 |
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Frederik III's reign saw Denmark fundamentally restructured: his 1660 coup against the nobility established hereditary absolute monarchy, and the subsequent tax reforms created immediate demand for small-denomination silver coinage to service a newly centralized fiscal apparatus. The 8 skilling issues of the late 1660s were struck at Copenhagen under that pressure.
KM#305.1 distinguishes this variety from the closely related 305.2, differentiated by die details that continue to occupy Danish numismatic literature without full resolution on exact production sequences.