Denmark 1563 goldgulden Fr-21
This specimen was lot 10065 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €2,640 (about US$2,752). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. Goldgulden (Rhinsk Gulden) Klippe, 1563. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik ll. NGC AU Details--Holed. Mintmaster and engraver: Johan of Vilna. Mintage of 15.504 examples. Interesting type with Fortuna standing on globe. The globe being the symbol of chance. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." Frederick II ruled 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: 15,504.
Specification: 3.64 g, gold. This specimen 3.21 g.
Catalog reference: Hede-1; Sieg-27; Schou-20; Bruun-4419.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- 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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