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[[Image:SB924-1048o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection, lot 1048]]
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This specimen was lot 1048 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €33,600 (about US$37,236 including buyer's fees). The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, <blockquote>"Appealing and Handsome Fractional "Spectacles" Ducat, Quite Possibly Unduplicated in Private Hands, [[Denmark|DENMARK]]. 1/4 Ducat, 1647. Copenhagen Mint. Christian IV. NGC AU-50. Small flan flaws and a somewhat wavy flan aside, a very nice example of what seems to be the sole survivor of this amusing type apart from the two in the National Museums of Denmark and Norway."</blockquote> This spectacles design was used on quarter ducats (Fr-42 and Fr-60), half ducats ([[Denmark 1647 1/2 ducat Fr-42a|Fr-42a]] and Fr-59) and ducats (Fr-58a). Christian IV (r. 1588-1648) had a long but not particularly successful reign. Denmark lost the Torstenson War and had to cede Jämtland, Härjedalen, Idre, Särna, the Baltic Sea islands of Gotland and Ösel, and the province of Halland in 1645.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 0.87 g, 0.979 fine gold, 15 mm diameter, this specimen 0.87 g. 

''Catalog reference:'' Fr-60; KM-149; Hede-39; Sieg-122; Schou-7; Bruun-5817. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]'' 
* Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
* 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.
* ''Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed.,'' Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
* <sup>[1]</sup>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.

''Links to:''
* [[Denmark 1645 4 skilling|1645 4 skilling]]
* [[Denmark 1645 1/2 ducat Fr-40|1645 "Hebrew" half ducat]]
* [[Denmark 1645 ducat Fr-39|1645 "Hebrew" ducat]]
* [[Denmark 1646 2 mark|1646 2 mark]]
* [[Denmark 1646-HK 1/2 speciedaler|1646-HK half speciedaler]]
* [[Denmark 1646-HK speciedaler Dav-3536|1646 speciedaler]]
* [[Denmark 1646 2 ducat Fr-38|1646 "Hebrew" double ducat]]
* [[Denmark 1647-HK speciedaler Dav-3536|1647 speciedaler]]
* [[Denmark-Gluckstadt 1647-IS speciedaler Dav-3670|1647-IS speciedaler, Gluckstadt mint]]
* [[Denmark 1647 1/4 ducat Fr-41|1647 "Hebrew" quarter ducat]]
* [[Denmark 1647 1/2 ducat Fr-42a|1647 "spectacles" half ducat]]
* [[Denmark 1648 1/12 specie daler]] largesse
* [[Denmark 1648 1/6 speciedaler|1648 1/6 speciedaler, largesse]]
* [[Denmark 1648 1/4 specie daler|1648 quarter specie daler, largesse]]
* [[Denmark 1648 ducat Fr-39|1648 "Hebrew" ducat]]
* [[Denmark 1650-HK speciedaler Dav-3540|1650 speciedaler]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1647]]

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