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Royal Collection of Coins and Medals |
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The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals |
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Here visitors can see Danish coins from Viking times to the present and coins from ancient Rome and Greece, as well as examples of the coinage and currencies of other cultures. The medal collection includes Danish gold medals from 1550-2000, as well as European portrait medallions from the 1400s to today.
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The oldest Danish coin |
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| The small coin, minted at the behest of Sweyn Forkbeard about 1.000 years ago, was the first to bear the name of the country and of a Danish king, although the writing is in Latin and the portrait of Sweyn is actually a copy of a portrait of an English king on a similar coin. Sweyn was son of Harald Bluetooth, the first christian king of Denmark. |
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Denmarks most famous medal |
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| When the naval hero Niels Juel defeated the Swedish arch-enemy at Køge Bay in 1677, a magnificent gold medal was struck to celebrate the Danish victory. It is the largest and most famous Danish medal, measuring 13 cm in diameter and weghing 660 grams. The dies for this medal was produced by Christian Schneider, who produced a number of medals commemorating King Christian the 5th´s victories in the Scanian War. It depicts the dramatic moment when gunpowder smoke bursts from the Danish cannons and the Swedes lower their flag as sign of surrender. |
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The abolition of slavery |
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| A commemorative medal playing tribute to the royal decree abolishing slave trade issued by Crown Prince Frederik in 1792. The medal was privately minted. Both the motif and the revolutionary undertone are extremely rare in Danish medal art of the period. The portrait of an African, probably one of the oldest Danish naturalistic portraits of a black person, was drawn by N. Abildgaard. However, slavery persisted for more than half a century in the Danish West Indies until 1848, when the governor of the islands, Peter von Scholten, declared the end of the practice in the colony after a slave rebellion. |
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Oldest and biggest |
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| The 500-crown note from 1875 was the first of its kind and remained the highest denomination for a Danish banknote for a century. The back carries portraits of two major Danish cultural personalities from the early 19th century: the physicist H. C. Ørsted and the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. |
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