Denmark 1714-CW 16 skilling
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This specimen was lot 10330 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €780 (about US$813). The catalog description[1] noted, "DENMARK. 16 Skilling (Mark), 1714-CW. Copenhagen Mint. Frederik IV. NGC MS-62. Lustrous toning and detailed strike. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1713-16 and was worth one mark or one-sixth speciedaler. Numista notes that it was withdrawn in the 1720's after it was heavily counterfeited.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 5.19 g, 0.625 fine silver, 26.8 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-505; Hede-47; Sieg-15; Schou-6 Bruun-7412.
- 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.
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