Auctions

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.

1,367 lots went under the hammer resulting in total sales of £3,143,566 (excluding fees). The sale’s highlight was an excessively rare aureus of Julia Domna in Fleur de Coin condition, sold for £80,000.

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.

Biddr covers the whole range of services you can expect from an auction platform and promises a maximum of respect for the users’ privacy. This leads to an active use of the Swiss platform and good results. Here you can find the top results of the last month.

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.