Denmark (15)54 skilling

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice, lot 10060

This specimen was lot 10060 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €216 (about US$225). The catalog description^[1] noted, "DENMARK. Gotland. Skilling, 1554. Visby Mint. Christian III. NGC AU-53. Excellent Skilling with the lamb and flag on the reverse, struck in Copenhagen for use on Gotland. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." At this time one gulden was 48 skilling; the specie daler would not appear until later.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 1.98 g, 0.250 fine silver.

Catalog reference: Hede-11; Sieg-17; Schou-13; Llt-9a; Delzanno-88; Bruun-4348.

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)45 skilling
• (15)46 penning
• 1546 mark
• (15)56 skilling
• (15)57 2 skilling
• (15)63 goldgulden
• Coins and currency dated 1554