Denmark 1604 4 daler Fr-46

Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection, lot 1018

This specimen was lot 1018 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €19,200 (about US$21,278 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"A Very Rare Klippe Struck in 4 Daler Weight, DENMARK. 4 Daler Klippe, 1604. Christian IV. NGC AU Details--Tooled. Minted by Nicolaus Schwabe in only 588 examples. VERY RARE with only light smoothing in the fields around the portrait accounting for the designation by NGC, but very well-struck with clear details."

This was one of a series of gold klippes struck in eight dalers (Fr-44), six dalers (Fr-45), four dalers (Fr-46) and three dalers (Fr-47). The experiment was not repeated and all are very rare. Christian IV (r. 1588-1648) had a long but not particularly successful reign. His war with Sweden and his intervention in the Thirty Years War were costly and brought little gain.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 9.74 g, 0.923 fine gold, 29.7 mm diameter, this specimen 9.59 g.

Catalog reference: Fr-46; KM-25; Hede-12; Sieg-146; Schou-5; Bruun-4670.

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.
• ^[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.

Links to:

• 1603 speciedaler
• MDCIII (1603) speciedaler, mule of two reverse dies
• 1604 ungersk gylden
• 1604 6 daler klippe
• 1607 mark
• 1608 double ungersk gylden
• 1608 sovereign
• Coins and currency dated 1604