Danish Marck
The Danish Marck , Danish Mark or Mark Danish (Danish: Marck Danske, later Mark Danske ) is a former Danish coin and currency unit.
The then Anglo-Scandinavian King Canute the Great had mint masters from what is now England come to Denmark in the 11th century. These brought the English currency system with them to Denmark. During his reign as the Danish king (1396–1439), Erik von Pomerania introduced the Lübsche Mark as the unit of account at 16 Schilling = 192 Pfennig (penning) . Since 1529 silver coins denominated in Marck Danske have been minted.
Initially, the Danish mark was equal in value to the Lübische mark . From 1616 a decline in value began, so that finally two Danish marks were equal to one Mark Lübsch. There were coins of 4, 2, 1, ½, ¼ Mark Danske. The coins denominated in Marck Danske would later be ousted by the Danish speciesthalers . In 1739 six Danish marks resulted in one (species) thaler. On January 1, 1875, the Danish mark was replaced by the Danish crown at 100 Øre.
The Marck Danske was closely linked to the creation of the first Danish kroner currency, which was minted from 1618 to 1771. Initially, one crown was considered four Marck Danske. The coinage was based on its own Danish form of the weight mark (234.54 g) up to 1689 , which was slightly heavier than the Cologne mark at 233.85 g. Until 1616, Marck coins were minted with a fineness of just under 860/1000 and a fine silver content of 14.5 g. From 1643 to 1645 much larger coins (22.3 g rough) were minted, but their fineness was reduced to just under 594/1000. The silver content dropped to about 13.3 g. In the subsequent minting period from 1659 to 1689, the rough weight was retained, but the fineness and silver content increased to just under 672/1000 and 15.0 g, respectively. By switching to the somewhat lighter Cologne mark (until 1771), the fineness dropped only a few hundredths of a gram per 4-mark piece. Furthermore, from 1692 to 1726 a mint foot was used, according to which 13 4-mark pieces were to be minted from a rough weight mark at 833.3 / 1000. Here, too, the silver content is almost exactly 15.0 g. Six Marck Danske coins were minted from the same silver alloy . With 10 2/5 pieces from the fine weight pulp, the result is a silver content of just under 22.5 g.
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- ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 4. Altenburg 1858, pp. 687-696. online , accessed September 17, 2013
- ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, p. 897. online , accessed on September 17, 2013.
- ↑ Marck, a coin. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 1254.
- ^ ersch, Gruber (1887) Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetical order, Second Section NH, edited by August Leskien, part forty, p. 73