Denmark (1526-33) hvid

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10038

This specimen was lot 10038 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €480 (about US$500). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. Gotland. Hvid (1526-1533), ND. Visby Mint. Frederik I. NGC MS-63. a superb specimen, struck in Visby on the island of Gotland (present day Sweden). From the L. E. Bruun Collection. Ex. Joh. G. Guildal Collection (Private Sale-1918)." At this time one gulden was 48 skilling or 144 hvide. Hvid means "white" in Danish. The specie daler would not appear until later.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 0.80 g, billon, 16-17 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Galster-146; Sieg-13.2; Schou-41; Bruun-4104.

Source:

• 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.

Links to:

• (1523-33) hvid, Aalborg mint
• (15)23 10 hvide
• 1523 gulden
• 1525 søsling, Ribe and Ronneby mints
• (15)32 4 skilling, Copenhagen and Malmö mints
• 1535 4 skilling, Malmö or Copenhagen Mint
• 1535 mark, Roskilde Mint
• 1535 2 mark, Roskilde Mint
• Coins and currency dated 1526