Denmark 1627-BZ 2 speciedaler Dav-3523
This specimen was lot 20103 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (Newport Beach, CA, January 2021), where it sold for $13,200. The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 2 Speciedaler, 1627-BZ. Copenhagen Mint. Christian IV. PCGS EF-40 Gold Shield. This nicely preserved survivor boasts strong central design elements with full complete legends and minimal doubling exhibiting signs of handling consistent for the grade. The smooth surfaces display an attractive light mottled gray tone with areas of the richer patination in the peripheries and crevasses adding to its originality with a pleasing appearance. A handsome representative of this RARE type that seldom appears on the market with good eye appeal and an attractive and well detailed motif certain to add depth to the next collection it enters." Altho expensive like other Danish crowns of the seventeenth century, this is a multiyear type, being listed for 1624-28 and 1631-34. It was accompanied by a very similar single speciedaler (Dav-3524) and half speciedaler (KM 100). A few quadruple speciedalers (Dav-3621) and triple speciedalers (Dav-3622) are known to exist.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 58.46 g, 0.888 fine silver, this specimen 57.46 g.
Catalog reference: KM-104; Sieg-108.2; H-56B; S-8; Dav-3523.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The January 2021 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Oro del Nuevo Mundo and Matt Orsini Collections, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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