Greenland 1944-GS 5 kroner

Stack's Bowers 2017 ANA sale, lot 22529

photo courtesy Stack's

This specimen was lot 22529 in Stack's Bowers ANA Auction (Denver, CO, August 2017), where it sold for $493.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GREENLAND. 5 Kroner, 1944. NGC MS-65. Nice strike with soft satin luster. Brilliant with excellent eye appeal." This one year type minted at Philadelphia is not difficult to find except in choice condition. It was issued for use by the American occupation of the island. The SCWC notes that all Greenlander coins were withdrawn in 1967 and replaced with Danish coins.

Recorded mintage: 100,000.

Specification: brass.

Catalog reference: KM-9.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2017 Denver ANA Auction: Ancients, Selections from The Richard Stuart Collection & World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

Link to:

• Greenland 1926 50 ore
• 1960 krone
• Coins and currency dated 1944
• return to coins of Greenland