Denmark 1708 2 ducats Fr-247
This specimen was lot 1130 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €96,000 (about US$106,387 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Beautiful Danish West India Company 2 Ducats, DENMARK. Danish West India Company. 2 Ducats, 1708. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik IV. NGC MS-63. Mintmaster: Christian Wineke. A VERY RARE and beautiful type that was struck for the Danish West Indies Company and bearing a reverse legend can easily be seen as a glorification of the company itself: METIENDO MARIA AUGEMUR ("By sailing the Seas we enrich ourselves"). This interesting historical piece is supplemented by a heaping helping of beauty, with the surfaces glowing with a fiery and lustrous sheen. The details are immaculate, with a powerful strike and frosting on the devices that gives this piece a nearly prooflike appearance. A coin that should unite collectors of Scandinavian and New World coinage, along with those simply seeking a beautiful and boastful specimen. Ex: Johan G. Guildal Collection (Private Sale - 1918); later published by the Danish Numismatic Society as item 2213 in his collection."
This type was accompanied by single ducats Fr-212 and Fr-244 and five ducats Fr-246.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.98 g, 0.979 fine gold, this specimen 6.93 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-247; KM-A488; Hede-13; Sieg-51; Schou-1; Bruun-7352.
- 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.
- 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, 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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