Denmark 1535 mark

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice, lot 10047

This specimen was lot 10047 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €2,040 (about US$2,126). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. Mark, 1535. Roskilde Mint. Christian III. NGC AU-50. Struck by Christian III as he besieged Copenhagen, the Roskilde coinage was struck to pay his German mercenaries. This example clearly didn't circulate much before ending up in the collection of L. E. Bruun." At this time, one gulden was three mark.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 9.6 g, 0.843 fine silver; this specimen 7.92 g.

Catalog reference: Galster-98; Sieg-13; Schou-29; Bruun-4195.

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)32 4 skilling, Copenhagen and Malmö mints
• 1535 4 skilling, Malmö or Copenhagen Mint
• (15)35 4 skilling, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Ribe Mints
• 1535 2 mark, Roskilde Mint
• (15)36 skilling, Copenhagen and Visby mints
• (15)36 2 skilling, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Ribe mints
• (15)42 skilling
• Coins and currency dated 1535