Bremen 1641-PT sosling
This specimen was lot 10192 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €125 (about US$130). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. Søsling Lybsk, 1641. Bremervörde Mint. Frederik III. NGC EF-45. From the L. E. Bruun Collection. Ex: Johan. G. Guildal Collection (Private Sale-1918)." Struck by Frederick III as diocesan administrator of the archbishopric of Bremen, which he ruled 1635-45. This type was struck there in 1641. At the end of the Thirty Years War, Denmark surrendered Bremen to Sweden, which ruled the principality until 1719.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 0.70 g, 0.312 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-35; Hede-6; Sieg-161; Schou-13; Bruun-5950.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
Links to:
- 1641 søsling Lybsk, Glückstadt mint
- 1641 1/16 speciedaler, Glückstadt mint = 3 skilling Lybsk
- 1641-PT 1/16 speciedaler = 3 skilling Lybsk
- Denmark-Gluckstadt 1641 8 skilling
- Bremen 1641 city thaler
- 1641-PT thaler
- 1641-PT double thaler
- Bremen 1642-PT 1/16 speciedaler = 3 skilling Lybsk
- Denmark-Gluckstadt 1643 sosling
- Coins and currency dated 1641