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Hvid - John I Aalborg mint
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1483-1513 |
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| Weight | 0.80 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a Gothic capital letter H surmounted by a royal crown, all enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The crowned H monogram, representing King John (Hans) of Denmark, is rendered in a bold medieval Gothic style typical of late 15th-century Danish hammered coinage. A circular Latin legend runs around the periphery outside the beaded border, with a mintmark positioned at the end of the inscription. The coin's flan is irregular in shape, as is characteristic of hand-struck medieval issues. |
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| Mint | Aalborg Mint |
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John I came to the Danish throne in 1481 after a prolonged succession dispute, and his minting activity at Aalborg reflects the broader decentralization of Danish coinage in this period — regional mints like Aalborg operated with considerable autonomy, producing small silver pieces whose weight and fineness varied noticeably across the thirty-year span of his reign. The hvid denomination itself was a workhorse of Scandinavian petty commerce, directly descended from earlier Baltic monetary conventions.
Aalborg's mint output under John I is poorly documented in surviving records, making die studies the primary tool for dating individual strikes within the 1483–1513 window.