Denmark- Schleswig-Holstein - Flensburg Mint Søsling lybsk (Sechsling) Schleswig-Holstein sechsling 1545 Christian III Flensburg silver Hede 21A F-VF

Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, sechsling or søsling lybsk, 1545, Flensburg mint, Christian III, silver, hammer struck.

Obverse: the arms of Holstein in a quatrefoil superimposed on a cross, all within a circle, with the titles of Christian III as King of Denmark around.

Reverse: the shield with the arms of Schleswig, with the titles continued as Duke of Schleswig and Holstein.

References: Hede 21A, Sieg 41.1, Schou 17, MB 33.

A sechsling counts for one forty second of a thaler. The type is known with the years 1534, 1545, 1546 and 1554 and belongs to the mint of Flensburg.

The two sides together say what Christian III was. On one he stands as King of Denmark, on the other as Duke of Schleswig and Holstein. He was born on 12 August 1503 at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig. In 1521 he heard Martin Luther speak at the Diet of Worms, and with the Church Ordinance of 1528 he made the Lutheran church the state church of Schleswig and Holstein.

After the Count's Feud of 1534 to 1536 his hold on the Danish throne was secure. In 1544 he and his half brothers John the Elder and Adolf divided the duchies. The revenues were split into three equal shares by assigning particular districts and landed estates to each of the brothers. On 23 May 1544 he made peace with Emperor Charles V at Speyer. This coin of 1545 therefore comes from the year after that division. Christian III died on 1 January 1559 at Koldinghus and was buried in Roskilde Cathedral.

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