Denmark (15)63 goldgulden Fr-19

Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection, lot 1008

This specimen was lot 1008 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €33,600 (about US$37,236 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"Beautiful Goldgulden Klippe with Only About Three Examples in Private Hands, DENMARK. Goldgulden (Rhinsk Gulden) Klippe, 1563. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik II. NGC AU-55. Mintmaster and engraver: Johan of Vilna. Of the original mintage of 2,259 examples, only a handful is still in existence, with about three in private hands. Exceptionally well-struck on a broad an even flan.
Struck from gold provided by the king's brother-in-law, August, Elector of Saxony, in order to finance the Danish war efforts in the Northern Seven Years' War, 1563-1570."

Frederick II ruled 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: 2,259.

Specification: 3.25 g, 0.917 fine gold, this specimen 3.23 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-19; Hede-3; Sieg-23; Schou-3; Bruun-4421.

Source:

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.
Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio, Jeremy Bostwick and Henrik Holt Christensen, The L. E. Bruun Collection - A Corpus of Scandinavian Monetary History Part I, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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