Closed auctions

CNG’s online auction features 619 lots with Sicilian bronze issues and Roman aurei from the Alpine Collection. The sale is rounded out by a handful of crude but rare and historically interested Irish copper issues from the Cities of Refuge during the Great Rebellion.

On 15 and 16 November 2019, the Gadoury auction offers something for every collector – at the highest level: From the finest ancient coins to coins from all over the world and to the second part of the spectacular collection of a gentleman from the House of Savoy.

Kolbe & Fanning offers the personal library formed over half a century by numismatic bookseller George F. Kolbe. The auction features not only those works discussed in Kolbe’s reference volume of 2012, but additional items acquired in the years since.

With Auction 153 Frankfurter Münzhandlung continues its long tradition. The auction’s core is an extensive collection of Gold Coins of the German Empire – 257 single lots, featuring almost exclusively objects of outstanding grade.

Moscow-based auction house Rare Coins has put together their largest auction so far with exactly 1,000 lots mostly from Russia including numismatic books and catalogues. Two out of three of the submitted lots are of the highest collectible quality: MS (Uncirculated) and Proof.

Roma Numismatics features a selection of coinage from the Hermann Lanz collection with excellent pedigrees, some very rare examples of Etruscan coinage, Roman coins with distinguished provenance, and mint state Basil I solidus from the Byzantine section.

The auction focuses on Saxony and Regensburg, both with many rarities and superb conditions. Other prominent items are rare medals from 17 c. Gdansk, and two remarkable coins of Augsburg mentioning the emperor Karl VI.

CNG’s online auction features 900 lots with the final offerings from the Michel Prieur Collection. Roman aurei from the Alpine Collection, and British copper and bronze coins from the Brondesbury Park Collection round out this auction.

An early Umayyad gold dinar dated 105h (723AD) from the ‘Mine of the Commander of the Faithful’ is the second specimen ever to be offered at public auction. Estimated at £1.4-1.6 million this is the highest estimate for any lot previously offered for sale by the auction house.

Coins from the Mel Wacks Collection of Ancient Judaean and Related Coins will be sold by Goldberg Auctioneers. The collection has been assembled for over 50 years. Now Mel Wacks, a renowned expert on the subject, has decided to pass it along.