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8 Skilling - Frederik IV Pattern
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark-Norway |
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| Year | 1712 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DOMINUS MIHI ADIUTOR 8 S 1712 (Translation: Lord be my helper.) |
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Pattern coinage from 1712 falls squarely in the middle of Denmark-Norway's grinding involvement in the Great Northern War, when Frederik IV's treasury was under severe strain financing campaigns against Sweden. Patterns of this denomination were produced to test proposed monetary reforms that never fully materialized during the war years, leaving approved dies unused or struck only in tiny proof-like quantities for official review.
The Ahlström and Müseler references place this firmly in the specialist literature on Scandinavian patterns — Müseler 14.1/15 in particular documents pieces that rarely surface at auction.