1 Penning - Christopher II Flower

Christopher II spent much of his reign either deposed or politically neutralized by German creditors to whom the Danish crown had mortgaged vast territories. By 1330 he had been restored to a shadow of his former authority, ruling a kingdom so financially compromised that the nobility and church held more practical power than the throne. Coins struck in his name during this terminal phase of his reign are sparse survivors of a mint operating under genuine fiscal duress.