Review

A small series of augustales of Frederick II of Sicily was offered in Gorny & Mosch Auction 242. The results were impressive. Hammer prices ranged between 9,000 and 20,000 euros. And this was only one of this auction week’s highlights.

In the Künker Fall Auctions week, spectacular results were achieved: 300,000 euros for an aureus of Vespasian featuring defeated Judaea, 42,000 euros for a Polish reichstaler or 48,000 euros for 4 ducats of the Great Elector. And these are only a few examples.

On September 17, 2016 Heritage Auctions and The Rail Splitter hold their special auction of Lincoln memorabilia. Highlight was a unique 30-ounce Henry Clay gold medal which quadrupled its $75,000 starting bid to sell for $346,000.

The Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio August Hong Kong Auction of Chinese and Foreign Coins and Paper Money Brings over $4.1 Million.

Two early American pennies among the first struck by the U.S. Mint in 1792 sold for a combined $869,500 – more than 43 million times their face value – on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, at a public auction of American coinage in Anaheim, California.

Heritage Auctions sold more than $38 million worth of U.S., World & Ancient Coins and Currency at their auction at the ANA’s World’s Fair of Money in Anaheim.

Rare patterns and modern Chinese bullion star as total sales soar by 30% at Heritage’s joint World & Ancient Coins and Currency Signature Auctions, held June 22-24, 2016 at Hong Kong.

Around 3,000 lots achieving a hammer price of 9.2 million euros were auctioned off at the Künker summer-auctions June 21-23, 2016. More than 1,800 bidders participated in the auctions held.

High prices for interesting material: Auction 239 of Gorny & Mosch proved that special collectors know exactly about the rarity of individual objects.

Part IV of the D. Brent Pogue Collection, offered by Stack’s Bowers Galleries and Sotheby’s at Sotheby’s New York galleries, realized a total of $16,749,038 for 61 lots, with an average lot value of more than $274,000 per coin.