The wedding of HRH Crown Prince Frederik and Miss Mary Donaldson |  |
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| Commemorative coin to mark the wedding of HRH Crown Prince Frederik and Miss Mary Donaldson on 14 May 2004. |
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Two wedding coins – with denominations of 20- and 200-kroner - was issued to mark the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Miss Mary Donaldson. This is in line with the tradition to issue commemorative coins in connection with special events in the Royal Family.
The sculptor Karin Lorentzen is the artist behind the wedding coins, which show a twin portrait of Crown Prince Frederik and Miss Mary Donaldson facing right.
The 20-krone coin is of the same size and alloy as the ordinary 20-krone coin in circulation. It is minted in an edition of 1.2 million coins. The 200-krone coin is somewhat larger and is minted in fine silver in an edition of 125,000 coins.
The motif on the other side of the wedding coins is a profile of the Queen.
The artist behind the wedding coins
Being a sculptor, Karin Lorentzen has made many portrait busts, but this is her first portrait relief. She comments on her work with the coin as follows:
"It is a challenge to make the motif artistically attractive while achieving a certain degree of likeness. To start with, the two portraits must be placed in relation to each other in the space available on the coin. At the same time, the portraits must be so large that they are as distinct as possible. One place where I have had artistic freedom of interpretation has been at the bottom of the coin where the portraits are cut off. I have chosen to give them a common base to symbolise that they are a couple."
The wedding coin is Karin Lorentzen's second coin. Her first one was the thematic coin with Børsen's dragon spire that was issued in 2003. It is no secret that she found it more difficult to design the wedding coin than the Børsen coin, but it was worth the effort.
Karin Lorentzen graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. From 1991-96 she trained as a classical sculptor in Århus and Paris. Karin Lorentzen has exhibited at the Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibition and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, among other places. When she was a guest exhibitor of Kammeraterne at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, her work was given an award by the Danish Arts Foundation. In 2004 she, inter alia, exhibited in connection with the 250th anniversary of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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