Denmark-Gluckstadt 1704 8 skilling

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Künker sale 335, lot 4372
from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10316
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The first specimen was lot 4372 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €460 (about US$602 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, KÖNIGLICH DÄNISCHER ANTEIL. Friedrich IV. 1699-1730. 8 Schilling 1704, Glückstadt. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, royal Danish line, Frederick IV, 1699-1730, eight schilling of 1704, Glückstadt mint. Extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

The second specimen was lot 10316 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €720 (about US$751). The catalog description[2] noted, "DENMARK. 8 Skilling, 1704. Gluckstadt Mint. NGC MS-63. Lustrous example of this Scarce error type with the Kings number inverted (VI). 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: 3.06 g, 0.562 fine silver, 20.6 mm diameter, the first specimen 3.02 g.

Catalog reference: KM-1; Hede-58; Sieg-55.2; Schou-25; Bruun-7346.

Source:

  • 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]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
  • [2]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.

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