Review

Stack’s Bowers Galleries held their official NYINC auction in California as the convention could not take place. Thanks to the recently acquired Coins in Motion technology the online participation was vivid.

During their December Auction Stack’s Bowers sold the second part of the Larry H. Miller collection including some of the greatest rarities in US numismatics. The 1804 Class I Original Draped Bust dollar became the most expensive US coin sold in 2020.

Nomos' web-auction Obolos 17 closed with almost 97% of the lots sold and a total hammer price of 359,630 CHF. Alan Walker presents some honorable results in his usual witty way.

Nomos 21 was an outstanding auction with 396 mainly ancient high quality coins. Alan Walker presents the most spectacular coins offered in the auction: a famous tetradrachm of Naxos, and the Libertas Americana Medal commissioned by Benjamin Franklin in 1783.

Top prices for Nuremberg talers, the most expensive Nuremberg pfennig and the most expensive silver coin of the Kingdom of Westphalia: there were a lot of surprises in Heidelberger Münzhandlung’s auction 80, even though the records that are currently being achieved in the coin trade can almost no longer be called a surprise.

Heritage Auctions offered the second portion of the legendary Simpson Collection of rare and important US coins in their November sale. An 1807 Draped Bust quarter that appeared only the second time in auction in over 100 years was sold for $630,000.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered in their past November Auctions some highly important collections of American Coins: the Larry Ness Collection of Indian Peace Medals, the second part of the E Pluribus Unum Collection, and the first part of the Larry H. Miller Collection.

Cayón’s Spanish copper collection and the gold e-auction sold both very well. E-auction 68 had a sell-through rate of almost 100% and increments of almost 300%. Especially the Spanish coins hit high prices.

Morton & Eden sold in their recent Auction many high quality and rare coins, medals, plaquettes, and banknotes. Highlights were a mint state five-guineas from 1701 and a rare 10 ducats of Albrecht von Wallenstein.

With a record-breaking total result of more than 14 million euros, Künker’s Fall Auction Sales have almost doubled their estimate of 7.4 million euros. We present the five most expensive lots of the auction week as well as the surprise of the sale: a lot with an original estimate of only 500 euros.