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8 Skilling / Halvmark - Frederik I Copenhagen mint
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1532 |
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| Weight | 5.28 g |
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| Obverse lettering | FRIDERICVS°D°G°REX°DA°E°NO° (Translation: Frederik I King of Denmark and Norway) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederik I's reign saw persistent tension between the Crown and the increasingly powerful Lutheran reform movement — by 1532, the king was effectively sheltering Protestant preachers against the wishes of the Catholic bishops who still controlled Denmark's ecclesiastical apparatus. The same year this coin was struck, Frederik convened the Odense parliament, where he extracted a sweeping agreement curtailing clerical legal privileges, a move that would accelerate the formal Lutheran reformation his son Christian III completed after 1536.
The halvmark denomination placed this squarely in commercial circulation at a moment when Lübeck's trade dominance over the Sound was beginning to fracture.