Morton & Eden, GB-London
A strong fighting arose at Morton & Eden’s Royal Mint Museum sale around the US 1859 Proofs between a Japanese dealer and US dealers and collectors leading to a sale that totalled over £400,000 for the eleven coins of sublime rarity and quality.
Morton & Eden, GB-London
After the Huntington Portuguese and Portuguese Colonial coins Morton & Eden sold at auction the Huntington Collection of Spanish Colonial Coins on March 6, 2013.
Gorny & Mosch, D-Munich
57,500 euros for an aureus of Augustus, 80,500 euros for Septimius Severus and Otho, nearly 53,000 euros for Diocletian – right now, Roman gold reaches maximum prices.* In addition, the results for Greek and Roman coins were not to be sniffed at, either.
Künker, D-Berlin
Auction house Künker, which by tradition fires the starting pistol for the big three-day coin show, again provided for some record hammer prices with Russian coins and Medals and rarities from the Friedrich Popken and Helmut Hahn Collections.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries, USA-New York
On January 24, 2013 during the Americana Sale Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ realized the highest price ever for any rare coin at auction. A 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar, a superb Gem Specimen example, the finest known to exist was sold for $10,016,875.
Woolley & Wallis, GB-Salisbury
During A schoolboy's coin collection, on January 22, 2013, yielded a rare American Half-Cent which reached a sale total of £225,700 (inc.prem.) at Salisbury saleroom Woolley & Wallis.
Stephen Album Rare Coins, USA-Santa Rosa (CA)
Auction 15 was the largest auction yet offered by Stephen Album Rare Coins, with 2239 lots completed in two lengthy days of about 12 hours each. Of special interest was part two of the John Page collection which realized many fabulous results.
Kolbe&Fanning, USA-New York
Composed of 271 lots of high-quality works covering the entire range of numismatics, the Kolbe & Fanning 2013 New York Book Auction held on January 12, 2013, was notable for including exceptionally important archival materials and unique manuscripts.
Heritage, USA-Orlando, FL
A record-setting price for the first circulating coin from US Mint leads $44.9+ million Orlando, FL event presented by Heritage Auctions. The 1792 Half Disme sold for $1.41m.
Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, USA-New York
An extremely rare 1902 Pattern Crown in Gold, PCGS SP-62 brought $117,500 as the top lot in the Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio Official NYINC Auction, held January 8-14, 2013 in New York, where collectors focused heavily on world coins and paper money.