War time currency
When the Swedes attacked in 1643, the money shortage became acute. The king even pawned his own crown, and many silver objects were melted down to finance the war. The king also intervened directly in the mint, and decided that new coins should bear the inscription "Justus Jehova Judex", namely "The Lord is a righteous judge". That was his message to the Swedes after their attack on Denmark. Jehovah was written in Hebrew letters, and thus the coins were nicknamed Hebrew coins. Incidentally, the coins were minted in a weaker alloy than usual, and although a 2 mark should correspond to 32 shillings, after the king's death it was written down to 28 shillings.
The war also affected Norway. Governor Hannibal Schested mobilized an army of 10,000 soldiers. Akershus fortress was also strengthened, and construction work was started there. The National Archives is in possession of an account which shows that 120 women and men worked to move bricks from incoming ships up to the fortress. It was hard work that took seven days. Both women and men received 10 shillings in daily wages. In the course of seven days, there were two pieces of 2 marks and six shillings.
It is probably somewhat uncertain whether they were paid in Hebrew coins, as these were first minted in Christiania from May 1644.
However, the luck of war was not on either King Christian IV's or Hannibal Schedsted's side, and the Swedes won and took large parts of the Danish-Norwegian kingdom with them. We are left with some exciting coins.
Référence : Rønning 17
Source : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1...
Collection : XVI Norway 1540-1814