Denmark 10 kroner 1967 ♥ C - Wedding of Princess Margrethe

The coin's story

This silver 10 kroner coin was issued for the wedding of Princess Margrethe, eldest daughter of King Frederik IX and future Queen Margrethe II, to the Frenchman Henri de Laborde de Monpezat. The couple had met in 1965 at a dinner at the French Embassy in London, while the princess was studying at the London School of Economics, the engagement was announced on 4 October 1966. The ceremony took place on 10 June 1967 at Holmen Church in Copenhagen: it lasted only twenty minutes and the groom spoke his vows in Danish, before a banquet at Fredensborg Palace. Through this marriage, Henri became Prince Henrik of Denmark. Issued by the National Bank of Denmark, the coin was not intended for circulation, the Royal Mint in Copenhagen struck 497,925 pieces, of which 78,383 were later melted down. Both sides are the work of Harald Salomon, chief medallist of the Mint from 1933 to 1968, the initial C is that of the mintmaster Alfred Kristian Frederik Christiansen.