Denmark-Gluckstadt 1623 speciedaler Dav-3668

Künker sale 263, lot 1361

Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection, lot 1030

Holstein in 1648

The first specimen was lot 1361 in Künker sale 263 (Osnabrück, June 2015), where it sold for €1,700 (about US$2,196 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"KÖNIGLICH DÄNISCHER ANTEIL Christian IV. 1588-1648. Speciestaler 1623, Glückstadt. Münzmeister Albert Dionis. Mit CHRISTIANVS Û IIII in der Vorderseitenumschrift. R Attraktives, sehr schönes Exemplar. (Germany, duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, under Danish rule, Christian IV, 1588-1648, species thaler of 1623, Gluckstadt mint. Scarce, attractive very fine.)"

The second specimen was lot 1030 in Stack's Bowers sale of the L. E. Bruun Collection (Copenhagen, September 2024), where it sold for €20,400 (about US$22,607 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[2] noted,

"Choice Mint State Speciedaler with Entrancing Reverse Design, DENMARK. Speciedaler, 1623. Gluckstadt Mint. Christian IV. NGC MS-63. Mintmaster: Albert Dionis. A stunningly choice example of this popular type, with surfaces that have acquired a rather pleasant tone and have largely escaped forms of major handling. For preciseness, a few small areas with doubling or incompleteness of strike are noted, particularly at the date, but the overall depiction is quite satisfactory.

The city of Glückstadt (literally: City of luck) had been founded by Christian IV only seven years earlier, in 1616. The idea was to creative a Danish rival to the important City of Hamburg. Promising settlers tax exemption and, radically for the time, freedom of religion, the city soon flourished, becoming the home of the first Jewish settlers in Denmark. Many of the coins struck at Glückstadt depict Lady Luck standing on a globe, as does this astounding piece."

This type is listed for 1623-27 with the 1623 being the most available. The dynastic affairs of this duchy are complicated even by German standards as the dukes were related to the king of Denmark and even the czar of Russia. Most coin issues are rare.

Recorded mintage: unknown but rare.

Specification: silver, this specimen 28.85 g.

Catalog reference: Dav-3668; Hede 156; Lange 34 h/f, KM 15 (listed under Denmark, Gluckstadt).

Source:

• ^[1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 263, The Friedrich Popken collection of gold and silver coinages | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the collection of Ernst Otto Horn, part III, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2015.
• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
• Siegs Møntcatalog 2016: Danmark med Omrader, 48 ed., Frederikssund, Siegs Forlag ApS, 2015.
• ^[2]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.

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