Norway 1652-FG specie daler Dav-3592
This specimen was lot 1193 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €28,800 (about US$31,916 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Very Desirable and Rare 1652 Speciedaler, NORWAY. Speciedaler, 1652. Christiania Mint. Frederik III. NGC AU Details--Obverse Tooled. Mintmaster: Frederik Grüner (FG). EXTREMELY RARE with only a very few in private hands. Light tooling is visible in the fields on both the obverse and reverse, but there is very little wear, which accounts for the grade. This splendid rarity was acquired by Aug. Krautwald for Bruun in the 1914 auction of tanner Lauritz Christian Petersen (1859-1927). Petersen, who contributed to his own catalog with many interesting numismatic observations himself, was first and foremost a collector of medieval coins of which Bruun bought many in the following sale of 1917. Ex: Lauritz C. Petersen Collection (Sagførernes Auktioner, Copenhagen - 5/1914) Lot # 843."
This specie daler is noted for 1652-53 only. It varies from the previous Dav-3590 in many details of the king's bust and hair.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 28.78 g, 0.875 fine silver, 45 mm diameter, this specimen 28.69 g.
Catalog reference: KM-cf. A46; Dav-cf. 3592; Hede-14; Sieg-24; NMD-73; Schou-8; Aagaard-41.1 (52-3/52-3); Bruun-9648.
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- 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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