Denmark (15)42 skilling

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice, lot 10054

This specimen was lot 10054 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €528 (about US$550). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. Skilling, 1542. Christian III. NGC AU-58. Marvelous specimen of this, the first Danish coin which gives the number of the king. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." At this time one gulden was 48 skilling; the specie daler would appear until later. This type was struck 1542-68; this date is slightly heavier than the later ones.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 2.2 g, 0.250 fine silver.

Catalog reference: Hede-6A; Sieg-32.1; Schou-1; Bruun-4286.

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.

Links to:

• (15)36 skilling, Copenhagen and Visby mints
• 1544 8 skilling
• (15)45 skilling
• (15)45 gulden
• Coins and currency dated 1542