Denmark-Gluckstadt (16)25 1/16 speciedaler
This specimen was lot 10195 in Stack's Bowers June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction (Copenhagen, June 2026), where it sold for €109 (about US$127). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 1/16 Speciedaler (3 Skilling Lybsk), 1625. Glückstadt Mint. Christian IV. NGC VF-25. The city of Glückstadt (literally: City of luck) had been founded by Christian IV only nine years earlier, in 1616. The idea was to create a Danish rival to the important City of Hamburg. Promising settlers tax exemption and, radically for the time, freedom of religion, the city soon flourished, becoming the home of the first Jewish settlers in Denmark. Many of the coins struck at Glückstadt depict Lady Luck standing on a globe. From the L.E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1623-25 and undated. Christian IV (r. 1588-1648), king of Denmark and duke of Schleswig-Holstein, where this was struck, had a long but only moderately successful reign. His war with Sweden and his intervention in the Thirty Years War were costly and brought little gain.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.46 g, 0.888 fine silver, 18.6 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-11; Hede-170; Sieg-169; Schou-50; Bruun-5494.
- 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, June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction - Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, the Richard Margolis Collection and the Kirk Menczer Collection of Republican Reales Minors, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2026.
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