Denmark 1663-IS 2 ducats Fr-117
This specimen was lot 1077 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €45,600 (about US$50,534 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Stunning Double Ducat with Handsome Luster, DENMARK. 2 Ducats, 1663. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik III. NGC MS-63. Mintmaster: Johan Stichmann (IS). Engraver: Johan Blum. The shimmering fields surround a splendidly rendered and fully detailed portrait and help to create a genuinely choice example of the type. EXCESSIVELY RARE as a type and even more so in this tremendous quality.
This beautiful gold type clearly mimics Blum's Taler-type from 1662. The mintmaster and goldsmith Johan Stichmann is known to have been in charge of a part of the militia when Copenhagen was unsuccessfully stormed by the Swedes on 11 February 1659. Ex: Countship of Brahesminde Collection (Private Sale - 1922)."
This type was previously struck in 1662. A five ducats (Fr-114) and single ducat (Fr-101) were also struck in 1663.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.91 g, 0.979 fine gold, 29.25 mm diameter, this specimen 6.93 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-117; KM-244; Hede-33B; Sieg-131.2; Schou-6; Aagaard-36.1; Bruun-6400.
- 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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