Denmark 1515 skilling
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This specimen was lot 10024 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €384 (about US$400). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. Skilling, 1515. Malmö Mint. Christian II. NGC EF Details--reverse scratched. Despite the superficial scratches on the reverse a most wonderful example of this type with a full figure rendition of the king. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." At this time one gulden was 48 skilling. The specie daler would not appear until later.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.37 g, 0.375 fine silver, 26.8 mm diameter, this specimen 2.07 g.
Catalog reference: Galster-39B; Sieg-4; Schou-6; Bruun-3919.
- 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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