The Danes made their first appearance in India in 1618,
when the Dansk Ostindisk Compagni (Danish East India Company) started operating
under a royal Danish charter. They reached an agreement with the Thanjavur
Nayaks, receiving the port of Tranquebar and some surrounding area on an annual
payment of 4,000 rupees.
By the following year the Danish castle of Dansborg had
been built. Although the Danes subsequently did establish a few other
settlements, Tranquebar remained their headquarters and their only mint
operated there.
Coin-1:
DANISH
INDIA, Christian VI (1730-46),
Crowned
C6 monogram of Christian VI
Crowned
DAC monogram (Dansk Asiatisk Compagni)
Coin-2:
DANISH
INDIA, Christian VII (1766-1808), Year: 1774,
Crowned
C7 monogram of Christian VII
Crowned
DAC monogram (Dansk Asiatisk Compagni)
Value: 80
cash = 1 royalin
Tharangambadi
/Porayar (formerly Tranquebar) is a panchayat town in the Nagapattinam district
of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was a Danish colony from
1620 to 1845, and in Danish it is still known as Trankebar.
The Danes did not get involved in Indian politics at all,
so they did not get drawn into any of the conflicts that raged in the country,
but in 1807 Britain went to war with Denmark and British troops seized
Tranquebar. Although it was restored to Denmark in 1814, the Danes eventually
sold all their Indian possessions (which had included the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands) to the British.
Source: Internet & Numismatic experts
