On 14 and 15 May 2019 Nomisma Spa Numismatic Auction 59 will be held at the Gran Hotel Primavera in Borgo Maggiore, San Marino. Live auction will be available for registered users too.
Auction 59 offers 2,001 lots with a wide choice of coins and medals from Antiquity to today. Especially remarkable is a selection of Republican denarii of the civil wars’ era. Also on offer will be a large choice of World coins, and as usually many and relevant coins and medals from Italian mints, Vatican, and the House of Savoy.
These are some of the highlights:
Lot 85: Julius Caesar. Denarius, 48-7 BC, itinerant mint with Caesar, probably in Gaul. Extremely rare. Starting price: 20.000 euro.Lot 85: Julius Caesar. Denarius, 48-7 BC, itinerant mint with Caesar, probably in Gaul. Extremely rare. Starting price: 20.000 euro.Lot 316: Austria. Franz Joseph I, 1848-1916. 100 Crowns 1912. Rare. Exceptional conservation. Starting price: 10,000 euro.Lot 993: Parma. Ferdinand of Bourbon, 1765-1802. Medal 1780. Exceptional specimen both for its rarity and quality, probably the only one known in gold since it is already a great rarity in silver. Starting price: 25,000 euro.
Lot 1066: Venice. Nicolò Donà. Zecchino, 1618. Exceptional conservation, surely one of the best pieces known of this very rare ruler. Starting price: 25,000 euro.
Lot 1639: Victor Emmanuel I, 1814-1821. 80 Lire 1821. Very high quality specimen for this typology. Starting price: 70,000 euro.
Nomisma’s auction 60 is called “500 Rarities” and it comprises indeed many important specimens in exceptional quality like one of the major rarities of the Italian nineteenth century: a 5 Lire coin, minted by Napoleon’s second wife Maria Luigia with a starting price of 250.000,00 euros.
