Denmark 1608 sovereign Fr-35

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Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection, lot 1021
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This specimen was lot 1021 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €384,000 (about US$425,549 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Magnificent Danish Renaissance Sovereign of Christian IV, Easily the Finest in Private Hands, DENMARK. Sovereign, 1608. Elsinore Mint. Christian IV. NGC MS-62. Mintmaster: Hans Flemming. One of the most imposing from the whole series of Danish Renaissance coinage, this dazzling example with full luster was perfectly struck on an even flan and is easily the best of the three known examples in private collections. Publicly owned examples are to be found in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Lund and St. Petersburg.

Christian IV visited England in 1606 where he was probably inspired by his brother-in-law James I's new coin reform to instigate the mintage of Danish "Sovereigns," which were of the same approximate weight and fineness as the new British Unites."

This one year type was accompanied by a single goldgulden (Fr-33) and double goldgulden (Fr-36). Christian IV (r. 1588-1648) had a long but not particularly successful reign. His war with Sweden and his intervention in the Thirty Years War were costly and brought little gain.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 10 g, 0.972 fine gold, this specimen 10.02 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-35; KM-A47; Hede-19; Sieg-144; Schou-1; Bruun-4773.

Source:

  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • 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, Jeremy Bostwick and Henrik Holt Christensen, The L. E. Bruun Collection - A Corpus of Scandinavian Monetary History Part I, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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