Fritz Rudolf Künker, D-Osnabrück
Between June 17 and 23, 2013, Künker will auction off roughly 5,000 coins and medals estimated at more than 5 million euros. Additionally, the most important sale of medals and decorations in the history of Künker’s will take place featuring 1,200 objects with a total estimate of 750,000 euros.
51 Gallery, BE-Brussels
51 Gallery offers hundreds of objects from Europe and the Middle East. You will find Celtic and Greek coins but also Roman and Greek antiquities, Byzantine pilgrim souvenirs, memorabilia of the French Revolution, and numismatic literature.
Morton & Eden, GB-London
The Morton & Eden auction on June 5 and 6 was a wide-ranging two-day auction embracing everything from ancient Greek and Roman coins alongside Islamic, Oriental, British and Foreign coins, paper money and Renaissance medals and plaquettes.
Numismatik Lanz, D-Munich
That was the rarest stephanephoric tetradrachm of all: the enigmatic coin with the only known coin portrait of a Pergamene ruler alive obtained 170,000 euros in the recent Lanz auction sale.
Rapp Auktionen, CH-Wil
In the evening of May 27, Peter Rapp called out 161 lots with a starting price of 242,000 Swiss francs. Not a single one was sold for its starting price or was returned. The room, which was filled to capacity, made sure of that.
Stephen Album Rare Coins, USA-Santa Rosa, CA
Good results were seen at the May 17-18 auction by Stephen Album Rare Coins at their offices in Santa Rosa, CA. Particularly strong prices were seen in the Islamic, Chinese, and Mughal areas. The sale brought in a total of $545,125 for 1,903 lots.
Morton & Eden, GB-London
The Morton & Eden sale of important coins of the Islamic world totalled nearly £850,000. A gold medal sold for £120,000 (ca. $185,532) even established a record auction price for an Ottoman commemorative.
Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, HK-Hong Kong
Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio conducted their bi-annual Hong Kong sale from April 1-3 at the Sheraton Hotel in Kowloon. The sale featured more than 2,500 lots of Chinese and other Asian rarities, including both coins and paper money, and realized a strong $6,307,830.
Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, HK-Hong Kong
Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio conducted their bi-annual Hong Kong sale from April 1-3 at the Sheraton Hotel in Kowloon. The sale featured more than 2,500 lots of Chinese and other Asian rarities, including both coins and paper money, and realized a strong $6,307,830.
Fritz Rudolf Künker, D-Osnabrück
More than 14 million euros was the turnover of Künker’s as a result of the five auction sales conducted between March 11 and 16, 2013. The numismatic spectrum ranged from ancient to modern times. Customers’ interest was huge.