Denmark (15)85 2 skilling

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 10075

This specimen was lot 10075 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €480 (about US$500). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. 2 Skilling, 1585. Frederiksborg Mint. Frederik ll. NGC MS-61. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1582-85 and was worth 1/48 of a speciedaler. Frederick II ruled 1559-88. Wikipedia comments, "Frederick was, especially in his youth and unlike his father, belligerent and adversarial, aroused by honor and national pride, and so he began his reign auspiciously with a campaign under the aged Johan Rantzau, which reconquered Dithmarschen. However, after miscalculating the cost of the Northern Seven Years' War, he pursued a more prudent foreign policy."

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 2.4 g, 0.312 fine silver, 26 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Hede-27; Sieg-8; Schou-2; Bruun-4570.

Source:

• 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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