New Additions from Scandinavia

[Triggersmob]

Some new additions to my collection.
Scandinavian ore coins from the late 1800s.
Feel free to share yours.

[Eringobraugh]

I have a few of those myself..nice coins!!

[Redlock]

Nice additions, Steve 

[Triggersmob]

Thanks guys.

[Tanecoins]

Here's some nice commem 2 Kroners issued between 1888 and 1937 in Denmark. Often issued for King's birthdays, wedding and reign length anniversaries. These were one off year designs and are generally found in high grade.

One of the first was the 1888, 25th anniversary of Christian IX's reign - this was struck at a time when the Glucksburg dynasty was new and laying down roots. King Christian IX (1818 - 1906) was competing with Victoria for title of propagation of European royal families. The King had seen his second son become king of Greece and start a dynasty that lasted over 100 years and his daughters Alexandra and Dagmar married the Crown Princes of Russia and the United Kingdom. His own reign would last until 1906 when he was close to 90 years old, apart from his son Frederick VIII ruling for just 6 years, all his descendants would rule for a long time. The 1888 coin, he is already 70 years old, but looks younger.

In 1903 they issued a sapphire (40th) anniversary of reign and now we see the king looking much older and frailer (85) and even facial hair can not conceal the frail and aged face underneath. However his reign had bought stability and prestige to Denmark and we have the gift of early Art Nouveau design coming through as well.

[Triggersmob]

Very nice coins Tane. The last image reminds me of Britannia, but looking to the left.

[Tanecoins]

I agree the 3 lions on  the Danish arms is similar to the English ones, those links back to King Canute (Cnut in Danish) I guess. But the Danish arms has hearts on it too, nothing with hearts appeared in the British Isles until Elizabeth I started wearing heart shaped ruffs and fasinators in the 1560s.

Here are some more Danish silver commems, all 15 grams and a fairly stingy 80% silver next to the 90% or more of most countries then.

Coin  1 from 1892 is a royal wedding anniversary which is the 50th wedding of Christian IX and his wife, they were in their 70s by this stage. The marriage produced a dynasty that married throughout Europe and our present king claims decent from.

The second coin from 1923 is his grandson Christian X who celebrated his 25th wedding annivesary then, being born in 1870 he married in 1898. This coin came out when much of Europe had changed to base silver or no silver coins, like Denmark, these commemorative 2 Kroners were the only silver by this stage as they moved to ultra budget aluminium brass for regular 2 kroner coins.

[Triggersmob]

Can't beat some nice silver coins. Unfortunately, most of my Denmark coins are base metals.

[Triggersmob]

This is my oldest coin from Denmark.
1867 1 skilling rigsmont

[Tanecoins]

Its a good coin and issued just before the decimal krone was introduced in 1872.

Here is my oldest Danish coin for you, a Hvid from 1677.

This is a 2 skilling coin and basically billon, in this case really billon (28/1% silver) and the coin appears more coppery in the photo than it is. Its usually more silvery when fresh, but it wears off like mine. Again this only cost about $10.

My second oldest coin is another story from 1693 an old Krone which was 2/3 a Thaler and much more silver (5/6 or 83/3%) and I bought in an auction of Europeancoins from 1600 to 1900 and this was the best piece. Worth around $500.

Its the same king on both coins - Christian V (1670 -1699)

[Triggersmob]

I do have a couple of older coins from Scandinavia, but they are barely legible.
First one is a 1666 Sweden 1 ore, and the second one is 1671 Sweden 1/6 ore.

https://en.numista.com/39565

https://en.numista.com/18753

[Tanecoins]

Love those big Swedes! They had a mountain of copper called "Storja Kopparborg" or some cod English sounding name like that. It meant there was copper forever and in an era before electrical wire that pretty much just left coin making.

I have a 1 ore coin coin, usually a teensy thing the size of a 1 cent coin or less, in 1645 it was a behemoth 50 grams and 45mm in size.

Off stike on one side, Numista told me the date of it is 1641 or 1645 and Christina was the Queen then. They made these up to multiple ore, krona, dalers and all, the biggest are like slabs of copper for several dalers and they weigh like 15kg - so this is a fish scale next to it. The coin is so big, I keep it in a box, it would wreck any flip or album page I had.