Denmark-Gluckstadt 1702 8 skilling
This specimen was lot 10314 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €240 (about US$250). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 8 Skilling, 1702. Gluckstadt Mint. Frederik IV. NGC AU-58. 8 Skilling 1702 from Gluckstadt exist in two variations with IV or IIII in the kings title. Schou 8 is the only one with IIII. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1702-04 at Gluckstadt. A similar eight skilling (KM 470) was struck in Copenhagen 1700-05 with a heart mintmark. Frederick IV was king of Denmark and duke of Schleswig-Holstein. Eight skilling was 1/8 krone or 1/12 speciedaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.057 g, 0.562 fine silver, 20.6 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-1; Hede-58; Sieg-55.1; Schou-8; Bruun-7319.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- 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:
- Denmark-Gluckstadt 1695 8 skilling
- 1700-♥ krone, Frederik IV
- 1700 ducat, Frederik IV
- 1701-♥ 8 skilling
- 1701 double ducat, monogram reverse
- 1701 double ducat, Ft. Christiansborg
- 1702-♥ 8 skilling
- 1703-♥ 8 skilling
- Denmark-Gluckstadt 1704 8 skilling
- 1704 speciedaler
- 1704 6 mark
- 1704 ducat, Ft. Christiansborg
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