Denmark (15)52 skilling
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This specimen was lot 74503 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $65. The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. Skilling, 1552. Copenhagen Mint. Christian III. PCGS Genuine--Environmental Damage, VF Details." At this time one gulden was 48 skilling; the specie daler would not appear until later. This type was struck 1542-58.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.98 g, 0.250 fine silver, 22 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Hede-6B; Sieg-32.2.
- Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.* Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including 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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