Denmark 1669 krone Dav-3581B

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from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10258
note no initials "GK"

This specimen was lot 10258 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[2] noted, "DENMARK. Krone, 1669. Frederik III. NGC EF-45. An extraordinary example of this rare "Mysteriekrone". Mysteriekroner (literally 'Mystery Crowns') are a larger group of contemporary, foreign professional imitations/counterfeits of crowns from the Danish-Norwegian mints in Copenhagen, Christiania, and Glückstadt 1653-1679. The exact place or places of production are not known, but everything points to northern Germany as the place of production, possibly in the non-royal parts of Schleswig-Holstein. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." We are cataloguing this as if it were genuine, one of a type struck 1667 and 1669. Kroner for 1669 include KM 274/Dav-3581, KM 276/Dav-3582, KM 285/Dav-3581B (no initials, shown here) and KM 306/Dav-3584. None are priced above Very Fine. Most Danish crowns of the seventeenth century are scarce to extremely rare, likely a reflection of the poverty of the king's government.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 22.27 g, 0.671 fine silver, this specimen 20.80 g.

Catalog reference: Dav-3581; KM-285; Hede-113C; Sieg-59.3; Schou-26; Aagaard-M61-1; Bruun-6703.

Source:

  • 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, 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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