Denmark
Danish money in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was reckoned in daler, mark and skilling, four marks of sixteen skilling to the daler under the standard of 1544. The circulating daler was a large silver piece cut to the imperial Reichsthaler standard of 1566, a little under twenty-six grams of fine silver, and most of the pieces in Danish hands were struck abroad; gold scarcely circulated at home, so the Hungarian and Rhenish ducat served as the reference whenever one was needed. What survives is unusually good for northern Europe: the Rentekammer’s accounts, the Chancery’s letter-books and the Sound toll registers kept at Elsinore run in near-unbroken series from the middle of the sixteenth century, and large parts were printed from the 1740s onward, which is why Danish state payments can often be dated to the day. Medieval material is far thinner — runestones name the people who commissioned them and sometimes the carver, but never a price. The interest of the territory lies in how conspicuously the crown spent on design, from castle building and court music to an island observatory reckoned to have taken between one and two per cent of the entire royal revenue.
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