Norway 1651-FG 2 specie daler Dav-3589
This specimen was lot 1190 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted,
"Impressively Hefty and Most Appealing Two Speciedaler, NORWAY. 2 Speciedaler, 1651. Christiania Mint. Frederik III. NGC AU-53. Mintmaster: Frederik Grüner (FG). Engraver: Hans zum Busch. UNIQUE for the variety in private hands. Three further, but slightly different variants are in the National Museum of Denmark, the Münzkabinett, Berlin and the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. With only light wear to the uppermost features on the obverse and a couple of superficial contact marks in the fields, this lovely coin has a pleasant toning which brings out the many magnificent details."
This double specie daler is noted for 1651-52 only.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 57.43 g, 0.875 fine silver, 45 mm diameter, this specimen 57.21 g.
Catalog reference: KM-44; Dav-3589; Hede-9B; Sieg-22.2; NMD-36; Schou-3; Aagaard-32.1 (51-1/51-3); Bruun-9630.
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- 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, 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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