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1771 Denmark "Killing Dink". Amusing Filled Die

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Filled dies can occassionally make for some cute and even comical coins. Here is one I just picked up and wanted to share :)

Normal working is "skilling danske"

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@numismat, are you sure that this is a result of a filled die and not PMD (tooling)? This looks suspiciously like the vulgarly modified "one cent" US coins?
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Always possible Spence. I did not feel this was the case here since the patina is even all around, and the cruddy look to some of the other letters seems to show it was a pretty well used die. You can still make out a faint ghost of some parts of the missing letters. My initial thought was that they were filled in, but I'm always open to considering other possibilities :)
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Oh well. Why not? Vietnamese also pay with Dong, right?
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Tooled - Letter fillings aren't that common on these issues though the letters near to the edge often are weak due to wear. This particular coin was btw minted in Altona (now Germany) ca.1780.

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Probably the same reverse die.
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