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8 Skilling - Christian III
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1544 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1513-1572) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian III issued this denomination in the years immediately following Denmark's formal adoption of Lutheranism — a shift he had enforced with considerable violence during the Count's War, imprisoning the Catholic bishops in 1536 and never releasing most of them. The 8 skilling was part of a broader monetary reorganization intended to stabilize a kingdom whose finances had been wrecked by years of civil conflict and the costs of crushing the Lübeck-backed opposition.
Hede 4B distinguishes this variety within a small cluster of closely related 1544 issues that differ in die details.