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10 Kroner - Margrethe II The Shadow - Silver Issue
| Issuer | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt) |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Value | 10 Kroner |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2006 - - 22,317 |
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Issued as part of Denmark's long-running fairy tale commemorative series honoring H.C. Andersen, this piece corresponds to the 2005–2006 centenary celebrations surrounding Andersen's global cultural reach. "The Shadow" is among Andersen's darker, more psychologically unsettling stories — a man loses his shadow, which eventually returns as a dominant figure and engineers the man's execution. Danish critics have long read it as autobiographical anxiety, possibly tied to Andersen's fraught relationship with the poet Edvard Collins.
The .999 fine silver specification places this outside Denmark's standard circulating alloy, struck purely for the collector market at face value of 10 kroner.