Denmark (15)59 2 skilling
This specimen was lot 10144 in Stack's Bowers June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction (Copenhagen, June 2026), where it sold for €219.60 (about US$253). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 2 Skilling, 1559. Copenhagen Mint. Christian III. NGC AU Details--Cleaned. Good example of the type with well-struck lions. From the L.E. Bruun Collection." This two skilling was struck 1559-63, all with two digit dates. The mintmark appears to be a parsley leaf. Frederick II was king of Denmark and duke of Schleswig-Holstein 1559-88. Wikipedia comments, "Frederick was, especially in his youth and unlike his father, belligerent and adversarial, aroused by honor and national pride, and so he began his reign auspiciously with a campaign under the aged Johan Rantzau, which reconquered Dithmarschen. However, after miscalculating the cost of the Northern Seven Years' War, he pursued a more prudent foreign policy."
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.33 g, 0.312 fine silver, 26-27 mm diameter, this specimen 2.42 g.
Catalog reference: Hede-10; Sieg-34; Schou-4; Bruun-4387.
- 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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