Review

Heritage’s early January auctions total increase for the third consecutive year selling more than $71,928,037 million of U.S. Coins, U.S. and World Currency, and World & Ancient Coins during the first three weeks of 2018.

Setting a house record, Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 6-8 event realized $5,484,035 for Chinese proof coins and 19th century dollars. A record 1,685 bidders participated in the $4.4 million World Coin auction held in conjunction with the Hong Kong International Numismatic Fair.

CHF 40,000 for an aureus of Galba, CHF 140,000 for “Una and the Lion”, CHF 170,000 for a 1661 ducat from Transylvania, CHF 100,000 for a 10 ducat piece of Ferdinand III, and CHF 260,000 for a nugget from Western Australia. Consignors were positively satisfied with results like these!

Conducted by Dr. Busso Peus Nachf. on November 18-19, 2017, e-auction 420 featuring the second part of the Dr. Neussel Collection of Roman Coins was highly successful. A major reason for this was the fact that most of the 1800 coins had a very good provenance.

On October 25, 2017, Leu Numismatik conducted Auction No. 1. The large number of active bidders led to numerous record results. Adding up to more than 1 million CHF, the total hammer price exceeded expectations.

Held from October 23-26, 2017, the five Sincona auctions obtained the impressive total result of more than 9 million Swiss francs. A large number of top-sellers came from the departments of Russian coins and of World Coins in Gold and Silver.

On October 12 to 13, 2017, Gorny & Mosch conducted its 250th auction. The prices were impressive. Rare talers and ducats obtained maximum prices. Hammering at 65,000 euros, a 1 1/2 taler klippe of Transylvanian Prince Stephen Bocskai turned out to be the surprise of the auction, having been estimated at 4,000 euros.

More than 400 bidders showed up in person at the Künker Fall Auctions on September 25-29, 2017, and more than 2,600 sent their bids. The 5,800 lots realized a total of 12 million euros. An English 5 pound piece from 1826 sold for 200,000 euros.

£340,000 were realised for a British five pounds coin at Baldwin’s of St. James’s auction sale taking place on 22-23 September 2017. This world record was the highlight of the very successful sale achieving a result of almost £3 million.

Stephen Album Rare Coins held its Auction 29 on September 14-15, 2017. The total price realized was $1.20 million (including buyer’s fees) on a pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1 million. A presumably unique Chinese cash coin tree excited the audience particularly.