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Danish krone: research record

Evidence coverage: 1873–1926. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Danish krone

DKK · Research draft
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: 1873–1926; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Danish rigsdaleraccount unit replacement · 1873–1875
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Children / successors

Icelandic krónaaccount unit branching · 1922
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Unit and issue records 1 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Danish Krone — endpoint research dossierFTM000690 · C516

Latest research

Modern account-unit review

The Icelandic króna became a separate currency when Iceland exited its monetary union with Denmark in1922. This documents regional monetary succession; earlier local note issues are not treated as separate currency creation. Original monetary-history research explicitly identifies the shared system and its separation. No inferred branch from a banknote issue alone.

Sources and qualifications →
Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

1875: account-unit changeUnit of account change

The issuer's research dates the account-unit change from rigsdaler to kroner to 1875 at two kroner per rigsdaler. It separately reports that new gold coins became legal tender on 1 January 1874.

C516
Evidence & research notes 4 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C516

The issuer's research dates the account-unit change from rigsdaler to kroner to 1875 at two kroner per rigsdaler. It separately reports that new gold coins became legal tender on 1 January 1874.

Danmarks Nationalbank · Working Paper 103, balance-sheet history Citation S251 · Open source ↗

Appendix, PDF pp.32–33, unit conversion and monetary-standard paragraphs

Supported C1110

Danish legislation changed the account unit from rigsdaler to krone; new gold coins became tender in 1874 and the accounting conversion followed in 1875.

Danmarks Nationalbank · Working Paper 103, balance-sheet history Citation S251 · Open source ↗

Appendix, PDF pp.32–33, unit conversion and monetary-standard paragraphs

Inference C1147

Iceland’s currency developed from the Danish-krone system through local notes, separate monetary authority and eventual withdrawal of Scandinavian coins. The gradual regional separation is qualified.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V22-045. Original monetary-history research explicitly identifies the shared system and its separation. No inferred branch from a banknote issue alone. Replacement evidence: C1641.

Alþingi · 147. mál: verðgildi íslensks gjaldmiðils Citation S546 · Open source ↗

Historical explanatory memorandum: 1885 local notes, 1918 sovereignty, 1920 divergence, 1926 withdrawal

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1641

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.

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) Citation S829 · Open source ↗

Dissertation chapter2, section2.3, p70; original central-bank working paper68 p10

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Original WP mirror retrieval later403; dissertation reproduces the passage.

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