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Sterling - Erik of Pommern Lund Mint
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1413-1420 |
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| Value | 1 Sterling = 3 Penning |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a plain, bold Greek cross with four equal arms extending to a beaded inner circle, dividing the field into four equal quadrants. The cross is unadorned, consistent with the simple architectural style of Danish sterling coinage of this period. A beaded inner circle separates the central cross device from the circumferential legend. The reverse legend, in uncial Latin script, identifies the Lund mint. The flan edges are irregular, typical of hammered medieval silver. |
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Erik of Pommern — born Bogislaw, renamed Erik at his 1396 coronation — ruled Denmark, Norway, and Sweden simultaneously under the Kalmar Union, the first and only time a single monarch governed all three Scandinavian kingdoms from one throne. The Lund mint, located in Scania, operated within historically Danish territory that Sweden would not acquire until the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde. These sterlings belong to a period when Erik was increasingly diverting revenue toward his prolonged war against the Holstein counts over the Duchy of Schleswig, a conflict that would eventually destabilize his reign entirely and end in his deposition in 1439.