Denmark (15)65 2 skilling
This specimen was lot 10150 in Stack's Bowers June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction (Copenhagen, June 2026), where it sold for €268.40 (about US$310). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 2 Skilling Klippe, 1565. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik II. NGC EF-40. This klippe was struck to finance expenses related to the sudden outbreak of the Northern Seven Years' War (1563-70). They were rather crudely struck on unevenly cut flans of low fineness, making them very unpopular with the general population. From the L.E. Bruun Collection." This two skilling was struck 1564-66. Not all were klippes; the plate coin in Numista is a nice, round example. Some have four digit dates, like this 1564. 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: 1.52 g, billon, this specimen 1.07 g.
Catalog reference: Hede-16; Sieg-7.1; Schou-4; Bruun-4505.
- 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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