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8 Skilling Lybsk - Christian IV Type 1
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1641-1642 |
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| Weight | 4.872 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1641 - - 1642 - - |
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The 8 Skilling Lybsk was struck to Lübeck monetary standards — a deliberate concession to the commercial dominance of the Hanseatic trading network, which still dictated the monetary terms under which Baltic and North Sea trade operated. Christian IV, perpetually short of revenue after the catastrophic Danish defeat in the Thirty Years' War and the loss of prestige that followed, needed coinage that German and Dutch merchants would actually accept. A denomination pegged to Lübeck's system was more useful than one asserting Danish monetary independence.
Production ran only two years before the type was revised, making KM#30.1 the scarcer of the related issues.