The Danish Royal Line in Gold

If you are more interested in military history, the legendary naval medal “Modet værger” (Courage Protects) will probably arouse your interest. Frederik VI, who was Crown Prince at the time, presented this medal to Captain Arenfeldt after his efforts at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. It is a particularly rare medal that has long been preserved in the same family. The medal therefore avoided being melted down, which happened to many other medals during this period due to the risk of an impending state bankruptcy. The medal is accompanied by an excellent small work of art in the form of a miniature portrait of Arenfeldt created by one of the country's foremost miniature painters, Cornelius Høyer.

The auction also offers a broad selection of Danish coins, this time ranging from the earliest mintage in Hedeby to a rare 1 kroner from 1960. We also have the pleasure of presenting a suite of coins from the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein that have been part of a fine collection created by three generations of members of the Danish Numismatic Association: Niels, Anders and Ebbe Christensen.

In the second part of the auction, we offer a magnificent collection by Karsten Benedikt Kold. Already at a very young age, Karsten picked up a passion for collecting coins, and early on he developed a special love for the period after the currency reform in 1693 and the coins from the time of Frederik IV. It was also in this area of interest that he took the step from being a serious coin collector to an actual numismatist, which in 2020 culminated in the publication of the monograph on the royal court medallist, Anton Meybusch.

Karsten Benedikt Kold's collection is wide in scope and spans the entire Danish coin history from the Viking Age to the present day. The common denominator is the lack of compromise in the selection of every single piece, where only the best of the best has been good enough. One of the highlights is the Norwegian Speciedaler from 1670 with Christian V, who had just become King and therefore – quite unusually – wears a royal crown.