New potrait of Queen Magrethe II on Danish 10 & 20 coins

Big news from Denmark!

Our 83 year old queen, who have sat on the throne for 51 years, will feature as a new portrait on the Danish 10 and 20 kroner coins.

They will be released for circulation as needed from tomorrow, Friday the 26th of May.

Link to a news articel about it:

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2023-05-24-danmark-faar-nye-moenter

A bit further down you can compare the two potraits by sliding an arrow back and furth.

The national bank press realese:

https://www.nationalbanken.dk/da/sedlerogmoenter/danske_moenter/Sider/10-krone.aspx

I see now I posted in the wrong forum…

If that's a problem, hopefully some kind moderator will move it accordingly 😅

Jamtrup

Big news from Denmark!

Our 83 year old queen, who have sat on the throne for 51 years, will feature as a new portrait on the Danish 10 and 20 kroner coins.

 

They will be released for circulation as needed from tomorrow, Friday the 26th of May.

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to buy rolls of these coins from the Royal Danish Mint's webshop. It says so on their web-site. One can only speculate why.

Uh, I think it's going to be difficult and/or expensive to get hold of these coins in unc condition. 

I feel sorry for her, her 50th anniversary was completely overshadowed by another Queen's year long party and then death which blocked out the air for any international recognition of Queen Margarethe.

If it helps, her portrait has been updated on stamps several times and my 2003 20 Kroner shows an aged portrait of her.

True, and her 80th years birthday chancelled by the pandemic. 

   With all due respect for HM. the late Queen Elizabeth II, we Danes were argueing if we should just celebrate our Queen's 50 years on the throne regardless, because would the Brits have put everything on hold for us, if it was the other way around? We scaled the celebration down and postponed it for the second time in a year.

But our Queen is now the longest ruler in Europe and second in the world, after Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei. So maybe that will gather a bit more attention then? Also the fact that she's (for now) the only female monarch in the world.

With the new coins, I see some Danes say the Queen look too stiff/grumpy, but I think it's one of the better portraits of her. The artist said she tried to catch the age and experince of the Queen, and I think that's a pretty good job.

   Honestly, with all due respect for HM. Queen Magrethe II, my least  favorit portrait is the one from 2001 to 2009, which is a shame, since the Royal Mint and National Bank really had something going with themed coins about Danish towers and ships. But that's of course just my opninion 😁

I have a lot of respect for her. I found out, they had to pass an act of Parliament in 1953 just for her to succeed when her father died, as Denmark had not a ruling Queen since Margarethe I back in like 1405 or something, and even she only took over after her son died - she was apparently a good queen too, starting the Kalmar union.

I also found out Your Majesty, has a degree in Archaeology from Oxford University and no doubt speaks English very well (She may have had to, to Princess Mary from Tasmania - but I am sure the Princess would learn Danish too).

I started collecting Danish stamps back in 2019 and then researched a lot about Danish history and was amazed how little we get here in the British Commonwealth, searching bookstores and Libraries, I found nothing except Danish translations of the Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter probably left at a bookshop by Danish backpackers. I knew they were Danish as they had Kiobenhavn written on the cover page and it said something like Harry Og Potterskov en Dansk or something like that.

Coins came late, but my selection is mostly late. I have a really worn 1 Krone from 1876 and some 1920s 1 and 2 Kroner coins of Christian X, everything else is the 1960s to early 2000s.

The 20 Kroner coins, are some of the highest face value circulating coins around, 20 Kroner is around $4.50 NZD and almost $3 US.

Also an adult fan of that other Danish institution - Lego.

Moneytane

I have a lot of respect for her. I found out, they had to pass an act of Parliament in 1953 just for her to succeed when her father died, as Denmark had not a ruling Queen since Margarethe I back in like 1405 or something, and even she only took over after her son died - she was apparently a good queen too, starting the Kalmar union.

 

I also found out Your Majesty, has a degree in Archaeology from Oxford University and no doubt speaks English very well (She may have had to, to Princess Mary from Tasmania - but I am sure the Princess would learn Danish too).

 

I started collecting Danish stamps back in 2019 and then researched a lot about Danish history and was amazed how little we get here in the British Commonwealth, searching bookstores and Libraries, I found nothing except Danish translations of the Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter probably left at a bookshop by Danish backpackers. I knew they were Danish as they had Kiobenhavn written on the cover page and it said something like Harry Og Potterskov en Dansk or something like that.

 

Coins came late, but my selection is mostly late. I have a really worn 1 Krone from 1876 and some 1920s 1 and 2 Kroner coins of Christian X, everything else is the 1960s to early 2000s.

 

The 20 Kroner coins, are some of the highest face value circulating coins around, 20 Kroner is around $4.50 NZD and almost $3 US.

 

Also an adult fan of that other Danish institution - Lego.

The peculiar thing about the two queen regnant we have had is Magrethe II could have chosen to go as the first, since it's still debated if Magrete I reigned as a queen. She never officialy held the titel as far as I remember, but only held the titel of “sovereign lady and lord and guardian of the entire kingdom of Denmark”.

Our current Queen has been called one of the most educated monarcs of Europe and speak several different(-ish) languages, like Danish, English, Swedish and Frenchs. I belive her German is rusty, but usefull enough. She's an artist who have illustrated Lord of the Rings under a psudonym and approved by Tolkien himself too. Her first  prime minister who also formally proclaimed her, wrote in his diary “She is furthermore knowing about political, which isn't neccecarily is an advantage” - Jens Otto Krag (S).

   And yes, Crown Princess Mary speaks Danish with a slight accant. Mary is more accepted with her language skills than the late Prince Consort Henrik, from the French unrecognised dukal family of Monpezat.

About our coins, I'm really tempted to say, well, it's not because I feel I can buy much with 20 Kroner these days 😂 But I really wished the bank had used the opportunity of the 50 years reign to make a circulating 50 Kroner coin. With inflation it would have made sense, and we would have the highest values circulating coin, I belive? Maybe Japan beats us with their old 1000 Yen.

Jamtrup

 

Our current Queen has been called one of the most educated monarcs of Europe and speak several different(-ish) languages, like Danish, English, Swedish and Frenchs. I belive her German is rusty, but usefull enough. 

She is also fluent in Icelandic - I once heard on TV.

Reasons why I always respected her more than our recently deceased one, who had a limited high school education, although she can fix Land drovers and trucks (Being a WAAF in the last weeks of the War). But if you watch the Crown, you will see that the British peerage system did not allow her to be super educated, as it was her duty to lead the Empire and have people advise her.

This system of keeping the Monarch away from higher education ended with her though, both our current King and the Crown Prince are Univesity degree holders.

Yet they only speak English, which like most Britons and Americans, makes us look ignorant to you Europeans, most of whom speak 2 or more languages. I would not be surprised if your Queen has probably learned or is learning the language the natives of Greenland speak.

I never knew the Japanese had a circulating 1000 yen coin - was it a 1 off commemorative as the 500 yen is valuable itself, yet I am sure the Swiss 5 Franc is still number one - its worth around $9 NZD or $5.70 USD, the Japanese 500 Yen around $6 NZD. Yes I heard Denmark is expensive like 100 Kroner for a beer in some places. Also that you guys pay at least 48% income tax, although everything is laid on by the state. If you can't afford a home, you get one - the dole is high and they help you find another job etc.

Moneytane

 

 Yes I heard Denmark is expensive like 100 Kroner for a beer in some places. Also that you guys pay at least 48% income tax, although everything is laid on by the state. If you can't afford a home, you get one - the dole is high and they help you find another job etc.

Denmark is very expensive, agreed. “If you can't afford a home, you get one” - well, it was never true that simple. It is more like if you don't have a home for some reason, the municipality will help to find a flat for you in the social housing projects, where all the other “losers” live. The housing projects are of very good standard though, but very expensive, which means the state will compensate a part of the rent according to your income. In other words, you live there because you can't afford to live in other places without a subsidy.

Lately I read an article that Danes in average spend up to 40% of their available income on their home, which is the higfhest percentage in the EU. It's very common for Danes to own their homes. During the last two to three decades the old city centres have been gentrified, so now it's impossible for an average waged couple to buy a home in these areas.

Moneytane

 

 - the dole is high and they help you find another job etc.

This has changed dramatically over the last two to three decades. Almost half of all Danes are single and live alone, so the dole is not regarded as high, especially not now with high inflation. It's even worse with single parents.