Norway 1730-NBF 8 skilling KM-224
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This specimen was lot 76066 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $216. The catalog description[1] noted, "NORWAY. 8 Skilling (1/2 Mark), 1730-NBF. Kongsberg Mint. Frederik IV. PCGS AU-55." This type was struck 1727-30 for Frederick IV. It is fairly common. Eight skilling were struck 1730-34 for his successor Christian VI although the SCWC does not separate the two types. The initials NBF stand for Nicolai Bernhard Fuchs, mintmaster at Kongsberg 1729-1736. Norway would be ruled by Denmark until 1814.
Recorded mintage: 1,433,000.
Specification: 3.67 g, 0.468 fine silver, 22.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-224.
- Aamlid, J. O., B. Ahlström, K Jonsson and G. Thesen, Norges Mynter fra 995-1992, Stockholm: Numismatika Bokförlaget AB, 1991.
- 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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