Denmark 1560 8 skilling

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10064

This specimen was lot 10064 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €504 (about US$525). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. 8 Skilling, 1560. Frederik II. NGC AU-55. Marvelous toning. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1560-63 and had a face value of one-sixth gulden.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 4.57 g, 0.649 fine silver. This specimen 4.78 g.

Catalog reference: Hede-10; Sieg-11; Schou-5; Bruun-4405.

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:

• 1544 8 skilling
• 1546 mark
• (15)54 skilling, Visby mint
• (15)63 4 skilling, klippe, Copenhagen mint
• 1563 mark
• (15)63 rhinsk gulden, legend reverse
• 1563 rhinsk gulden, Fortuna reverse
• 1564 2 skilling, klippe, Copenhagen mint
• 1564 mark, klippe, Copenhagen mint
• 1564 ducat, klippe
• Coins and currency dated 1560