Denmark 1 krone 1875 ♥ CS - Christian IX

The coin's story

This 1 krone coin in 800 thousandths silver belongs to the series struck from 1875 to 1898 in the name of Christian IX, King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906. It is part of the first Danish decimal coinage, born of the Scandinavian Monetary Union concluded with Sweden in 1873: the krone, divided into 100 øre, replaced the rigsdaler, at a rate of 2 kroner to 1 rigsdaler. Christian IX was nicknamed the “father-in-law of Europe”, because of his children's marriages into the great royal houses of the continent. The portrait is the work of Harald Conradsen (1817-1905), trained at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts and under the medallist H. E. Freund, then chief medallist of the Royal Mint from 1873 to 1901. The initials CS are those of Diderik Christian Andreas Svendsen, mintmaster from 1869 to 1893. The 1875 date, the first of the series, was struck in 4,040,000 pieces.