Denmark 1564 2 skilling
This specimen was lot 10069 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €600 (about US$625). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 2 Skilling Klippe, 1564. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik ll. NGC AU-58. Lovely brightly toned specimen of this rare full date variation From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1564-66 and was worth 1/24 gulden. 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: unknown.
Specification: 1.52 g, silver or billon, this specimen 1.51 g.
Catalog reference: Hede-16; Sieg-7.2; Schou-9; Bruun-4496.
- 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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