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Blaffert - Christian II/Christian III
| Issuer | Kingdom of Denmark |
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| Year | 1513-1559 |
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| Value | 2 Penning (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of a crowned Gothic initial 'C' — the royal cypher of the Danish king — rendered as a stylised crescent or scroll form surmounted by a three-pointed crown. The cypher is set within a plain inner circle, surrounded by a broad border of radiating teeth or lobes forming a decorative rope-like rim. The flan is irregular and slightly concave, consistent with hammered billon coinage of the period. No legend is present; the crowned initial alone serves as the royal identifier. |
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| Obverse lettering | C |
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The blaffert was already an anachronism when Christian II began striking it — a low-grade billon piece inherited from the late medieval monetary hierarchy that Danish mints kept producing largely because small change demand outpaced any reformer's patience. Christian II's deposition in 1523 and the subsequent chaos of the Count's Feud meant production continuity across his reign into Christian III's was administrative habit as much as policy.
The type spans nearly five decades and two monarchs without meaningful design revision, which complicates attribution to specific mint years without die study.