Denmark 1704 8 skilling

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10315

This specimen was lot 10315 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €264 (about US$275). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. 8 Skilling, 1704. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik IV. NGC EF-45. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1700-05 at Copenhagen. A similar eight skilling (KM 1) was struck in Gluckstadt 1702-04 with a flower mintmark. Eight skilling was 1/8 krone or 1/12 speciedaler. The initials "DMA" are not a mintmark but an abbreviation of the royal motto, "DOMINUS MIHI ADIUTOR".

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.057 g, 0.562 fine silver, 20.6 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-470; Hede-42; Sieg-6; Schou-11; Bruun-7337.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• 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.

Links to:

• 1703-♥ 8 skilling
• Denmark-Gluckstadt 1704 8 skilling
• 1704 speciedaler
• 1704 6 mark
• 1704 ducat, Ft. Christiansborg
• 1704 5 ducats
• Coins and currency dated 1704