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Danish krone

Danish krone: a currency still in use.

Dates in use
Still in use; introduction date not established here
Currency code
DKK
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The story

The Icelandic króna became a separate currency when Iceland exited its monetary union with Denmark in 1922. This documents regional monetary succession; earlier local note issues are not treated as separate currency creation. [1]

Sources and evidence

  1. Bjarni G. Einarsson, Kristófer Gunnlaugsson, Thorvardur Tjörvi Ólafsson and Thórarinn G. Pétursson · The long history of financial boom-bust cycles in Iceland, Part I (2015); reproduced in Ólafsson, Macrofinancial Linkages and Crises in Small Open Economies (2016) C1641 ↗

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“Danish krone.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000332.html

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