Denmark-Gluckstadt 1660-IS sosling

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10235

This specimen was lot 10235 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €105 (about US$110). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. Søsling Lybsk, 1660-IS. Gluckstadt Mint. Frederik III. NGC VF-25. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1658-60. A søsling or sechsling was half a skilling. The initials IS stood for Jacob Schwiegelt, mint master in Glückstadt, Schleswig-Holstein, 1644-1660.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 0.70 g, 0.704 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 41; Hede-150; Sieg-146; Schou-92; Bruun-6356.

Source:

• 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:

• 1658-IS søsling Lybsk
• 1658-IS 1/16 speciedaler
• 1659-IS søsling Lybsk
• 1659-IS 1/16 speciedaler
• 1659-IS krone
• 1660 2 mark
• 1660 krone (4 mark)
• Denmark-Gluckstadt 1660-IS krone Dav-3675
• 1660 quarter ducat
• Coins and currency dated 1660