fwo_872988 - DENMARK - KINGDOM OF DENMARK - CHRISTIAN IX 2 Rigsdaler 1863 Copenhague
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Price : 280.00 €
Type : 2 Rigsdaler
Date: 1863
Mint name / Town : Copenhague
Quantity minted : 101000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 875 ‰
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 28,25 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CHRISTIAN IX / KONGE AF DANMARK // MED GUD / FOR ÆRE OG RET // 1863.
Obverse description : Buste à droite du roi Christian IX.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FREDERIK VII / KONGE AF DANMARK // DØD DEN 15 NOVEMBER 1863 // 2 RIGSDALER.
Reverse description : Buste lauré à droite du roi Frédérik VII.
Historical background
DENMARK - KINGDOM OF DENMARK - CHRISTIAN IX
(1863-1906)
Christian IX (8/04/1818-29/01/1906) became king after the abdication of Frederick VII (1848-1863) and the lost war against Prussia which took Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark. Christian, at the end of his life, was nicknamed "the father-in-law of Europe" because he had married his eldest son, Frederick VIII to the daughter of Charles XV of Sweden, Louise, his daughter Alexandra to Edward VII of England, his other daughter, Marie to Alexander III of Russia. His youngest son, Georges, became King of the Hellenes in 1863, under the name of Georges I..
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