Wedding Coin Or Token | Denmark 5 Kroner 1964

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w1007 Valued Member South Africa 51 Posts	Posted 10/11/2010 3:05 pm This was obviously issued to commemorate this wedding by the King.Is it a regular practice for this to happen and would it be a good collectable item? Moved to World Coin forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

Jeff 11 Valued Member United Kingdom 497 Posts	Posted 10/11/2010 4:43 pm It is fairly common for such commemorative coins for royal marriages / anniversaries etc. This particular coin does have quite a low mintage of just 359,000 and contains 17 grams of 0.800 silver. So a better choice than many other modern commemorative coins, such as the British commemorative crowns, that were minted in the millions and apart from the proofs, contain no silver. www.kingstoncoincompany.co.uk Report this Post to the Staff
w1007 Valued Member South Africa 51 Posts	Posted 10/12/2010 2:58 pm Thanks for this information Jeff 11 .Could this also possibly be called a double headed coin? Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 10/12/2010 4:04 pm Yes, in Denmark it is fairly common to commemorate royal weddings this way. King Frederik had three issued - the one that you have (when Anne-Marie married King Constantine of Greece), and two others - for Crown Princess (and present Queen) Margrethe 1967 and for Princess Benedikte 1968. Then Queen Margrethe had one issued for the wedding of Prince Joachim (1995) and one for Crown Prince Frederik (2004). The latter even has three portraits: the Queen, Frederik and Mary Donaldson ... Other "Royalty" coin issued by Denmark commemorate anniversaries of accession or birthdays. Christian Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 10/28/2010 8:38 pm Yes, royal weddings are popular commemorative events on coins in countries that are monarchies, or have close ties to monarchies. As chrisild stated, while "bryllup" is Danish for "wedding", Princess Anne-Marie was the king's daughter, not his wife. Anne-Marie actually married King Constantine II of Greece, the last Greek monarch. For coins such as this which were designed to be "double-headed", the reigning monarch (in this case, Frederick IX) is considered to be the "obverse". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
epop Valued Member Greece 425 Posts	Posted 10/30/2010 07:25 am This is a nice coin which I also added to my collection mostly because Anne Marie married the Greek king Constantine. Report this Post to the Staff
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w1007 Valued Member South Africa 51 Posts	Posted 12/05/2010 3:23 pm Thanks epop ,Those photos really do justice to the coin Report this Post to the Staff
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