Denmark 1582 8 skilling
This specimen was lot 10073 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €1,200 (about US$1,251). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 8 Skilling, 1582. Frederiksborg Mint. Frederik ll. NGC MS-61. Rich luster. From the L. E. Bruun Collection. Ex. Frederik Christian Bech Collection (Copenhagen 1906-1907) Lot # 97." This type was struck 1582-85 and was equal to 1/12 of a speciedaler or one-third of a mark. 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: 4.45 g, 0.614 fine silver, 25 mm diameter, this specimen 4.65 g.
Catalog reference: Hede-26; Sieg-14; Schou-5; Bruun-4536.
- 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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