Denmark (1518-22) klippe
This specimen was lot 10027 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €240 (about US$250). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. Klippe, ND (1518-1522). Malmö Mint. Christian II. NGC AU-50. Struck as emergency coinage during the war to retake Sweden, this example is both struck on a large flan and has a high silver content. The coinage was struck using Skilling dies much larger than the Klippe flan. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." At this time one gulden was 48 skilling. The term "klippe" refers to a shape, not a value. The auctioneers don't seem to know what denomination this is and, without the weight, we can't begin to guess.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Galster-42; Sieg-8; Schou-26; Bruun-3945.
- Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
- [1]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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