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 The first Danish coinage
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The first actual organised coinage was created by Knud den Store (Canute the Great) around 1020. The city of Lund was the principal minting place. Since then Danish kings – with a few exceptions – have issued coins with their name, monogram and/or portrait. From the start, coins were used not only as a means of payment, but also as the state's probably only form of mass communication by which the king could assert his sovereignty.
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