| Heritage Auctions Europe / MPO Auctions > Auction 80 | Auction date: 13 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 7423 Price realized: 15,000 EUR (Approx. 16,034 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Deutschland - Staaten - Nürnberg - 2 Ducat 1700-GFN (KM259, Kellner51, Fr.1882) - Obv: Three shields in cartouches, dove above / Rev: Paschal lamb on orb, date in chronogram - Gold - NGC MS64 (6639665-001), 1 of 4 pieces graded MS64, only 4 pieces higher at NGC, exceptional quality, a praiseworthy near-Prooflike piece bathed in glossy resplendence Starting price: 2500 EUR |  |
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| MDC Monnaies de Collection sarl > Auction 14 | Auction date: 3 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 173 Price realized: 70,000 EUR (Approx. 74,818 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ALLEMAGNE - GERMANY Hambourg (ville impériale de). Portugalöser de 10 ducats, à l'unité des quatre grandes villes bancaires d'Europe (Amsterdam, Hambourg, Nuremberg et Venise), par J. Reteke, d'aspect Flan bruni (PROOFLIKE) 1677, Hambourg. NGC MS 61 PL (6638107-001). Av. QUATUOR HIS SIGNIS PYRAMIS AUCTA DOCET. Sous le nom de Dieu, vue de la ville de Hambourg et du port avec des bateaux. Au premier plan, l'Abondance avec une corne d'abondance, sous une dextre sortant des nuées, qui la couronne et une pyramide sur un autel, orné d'écus armoriés, surmontée d'un ange avec trompette ; à l'exergue HAMBURG. Rv. QUID PRUDENS CONCORS VIGILANS SOLLERTIA PRÆSTET. Allégories de face de la Prudence, la Concorde et la Vigilance, avec leurs attributs ; au-dessus triangle rayonnant ; au-dessous (date). Gaedechens 1609 - Geschichte in Gold 88 ; Or - 34,8 g - 49 mm - 12 h NGC MS 61 PL (6638107-001). D'aspect Flan bruni (PROOFLIKE) avec les reliefs détachés des champs miroir. D'une belle fraîcheur, avec son brillant d'origine, à peine bruni de micro-marques dans les champs et quelques micro-griffures qui expliquent ce grade technique sévère. Superbe à Fleur de coin. Le portugalöser, d'une valeur de 10 ducats en Or, trouve son origine dans les larges cruzados portugais qui circulaient abondamment en Allemagne. L'État se réservant la frappe des monnaies, les banques comme celles de Hambourg, émirent ces portugalöser sur le modèle de médailles, mais avec une valeur monétaire (les poids sont très précis) ce qui permettaient de pratiquer des transferts monétaires notamment entre les villes-États de la Ligue hanséatique ドイツ ハンブルク(帝国都市) ポルトガレッサー10 ダカット金貨 ヨーロッパ四大金融都市 (アムステルダム、ハンブルク、ニュルンベルク、ヴェネツィア) の通貨 彫刻師：J. Reteke氏 プルーフライク 1677年 ハンブルク 表面：「QUATUOR HIS SIGNIS PYRAMIS AUCTA DOCET」 神の名を綴る聖四文字の下にハンブルクの都市景観、港とそこに寄港する船々 前景左側に豊穣の角を抱える豊穣の女神 その頭上に女神に冠を被せようと雲から伸びる右手 右側には紋章盾で飾られ、祭壇に乗ったピラミッド その尖塔にトランペットを吹く天使 全体の下部に 「HAMBURG」の文字 裏面：「QUID PRUDENS CONCORS VIGILANS SOLLERTIA PRÆSTET. 」 それぞれの表象を手に持った、慎重・融和・警戒の寓意像の正面向き立像 頂点に光り輝く三角形 下部に年号 Gaedechens 1609 - Geschichte in Gold 88 ; Gold - 34,8 g - 49 mm - 12 h. NGC MS 61 PL プルーフライク 鏡面上に際立つレリーフ 製造時の輝きを残し、新鮮さを保つ ごく微細なアタリとスクラッチがあるため、厳しめの鑑定結果 極美品〜完全未使用 10ダカット金貨の価値を有するポルトガレッサーは、元はドイツで大量に流通していたポルトガルの大型クルザード貨にその原型を持ちます。メダルタイプでありながら、通貨価値(非常に正確な重量)のあるこれらのポルトガレッサーは、政府が貨幣鋳造権を行使し、ハンブルク銀行などの銀行から発行されました。これにより、特にハンザ同盟の都市国家間での送金を可能にしました。 GERMANY Hamburg (imperial city of). Portugalöser of 10 ducats, to the unity of the four major banking cities of Europe (Amsterdam, Hamburg, Nuremberg and Venice), by J. Reteke, prooflike, 1677, Hamburg. Obv. QUATUOR HIS SIGNIS PYRAMIS AUCTA DOCET. Under God's name, a view of Hamburg and its port with boats. In the foreground, on the left, Abundance with a cornucopia, under an arm emerging from the clouds and crowning it. On the right, a pyramid on an altar, decorated with armorial shields, surmounted by an angel blowing a trumpet; below HAMBURG. Rev. QUID PRUDENS CONCORS VIGILANS SOLLERTIA PRÆSTET. Facing allegories of Prudence, Concord and Vigilance, with their own attributes ; above radiating triangle ; below (date). Gaedechens 1609 - Geschichte in Gold 88; Gold - 34.8g - 49 mm - 12 h. NGC MS 61 PL. Prooflike with very detached reliefs from the mirror fields. Beautifully fresh, with its mint lustre, barely burnished with micro-marks in the fields and a few micro-scratches explaining this pretty severe technical grade. Uncirculated. The portugalöser, worth 10 gold ducats, comes from the large portuguese cruzados which were circulating a lot in Germany. The State was the only one authorized to strike coins, so banks for example in Hamburg, issued these portugalöser as medals, but with a monetary value (with very precise weights). Those portugalöser were used to transfer money, particularly between the cities of the Hanseatic League. Starting price: 50000 EUR |  |
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| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 217 Price realized: 250 GBP (Approx. 314 USD / 292 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: William III, Solus (1694-1702), 'Plain Angles' Sixpence, 1699, third laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. large crowned shields cruciform, angles plain, three strings to harp, edge obliquely milled, 2.89g, 6h (Bull 1248 [R3]; ESC 1576; Spink 3538), some bruising in front of portrait and in third quarter on reverse, wear to the higher points but reverse better, otherwised toned, good fine, EXTREMELY RARE, but unsurprisingly overlooked thanks to the Plumes and Roses issues of the same year, nevertheless the plain angles type a key rarity of the Williamite coinage. Cursory examination of CoinArchives provides the following important update to the census of surviving examples of 1699 William III Sixpences., , , Since 2003, at least fifteen specimens of the 1699 Plumes (Bull 1245; ESC 1577) have appeared at global public auction, including the Slaney Part II (14 May 2015, lot 477) and Lord Hamilton of Dalzell MC coins (LCA 156, 4 April 2017, lot 2750). Over the same time period seventeen examples of the Roses issue (Bull 1246; ESC 1578) have appeared, having featured heavily in the Frank Viles, Hardcastle and Pywell-Phillips dispersals by Spink, as well as the reappearance of the Lockett coin in January 2011 now graded NGC MS64. Within this, only one example has been identified as the 'inverted A for V in GVLIELMVS' variety (Bull 1247; ESC 1578A). Both have been rated 'R2' by Maurice Bull, suggesting as many as 1,250 extant for each. The Malcolm Wootton Collection adds a further specimen of the Plume coinage to this list (16 coins), having been acquired by him on 16 August 1996, and a further three examples of the Roses issues (20 coins), two acquired at the same time as the Plume type, and a further sourced from Format in September 2000., , , Comparatively only six examples of the 1699 Plain Angles issue have surfaced at seven public sales since 2003, the most recent four offerings being part of group lots where only limited appreciation for its scarcity has been proposed. Whilst Spink acknowledged this to a certain extent at their last offering (6 December 2017, lot 310); another example would pass through the same saleroom twice, quite underappreciated as part of a group lot of seven (DNW, 16-17 September 2014, lot 2084); and once more in recent times, now in a group of eight (DNW, 2 June 2021, lot 253). A flurry of three different specimens appeared at LCA between Spring 2009 and December 2012, with the example offered in September 2011 (lot 2358), likely to be Jackson-Kent's own reference example, and the first, a clear example of the inverted A for first V in GVLIELMVS (Bull 1249). Bull has only ascribed this issue R3 (Bull 1248), and R4 (Bull 1249) respectively, suggesting perhaps 300-400 surviving coins. The CoinArchives corpus supports this rarity attribution, indicating the Plain issues are between 3 and 4 times scarcer. In reality the date is seldom met with in the auction room, with the plain angles issue demonstrably prohibitively difficult to source., Estimate: £80 - £120 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3113 | Auction date: 8 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 31260 Price realized: 220,000 USD (Approx. 200,552 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Russia Nicholas II gold Specimen 1/2 Imperial of 5 Roubles 1895-AГ SP62 PCGS, St. Petersburg mint, KM-Pn142, Sev-548 (Excessively Rare, RRRR), Bit-320 (R3). Reported mintage 36 pieces. Obv. Bare head of Nicholas left. Rev. Crowned imperial double eagle facing, holding scepter and orb in talons; crown above, large coat-of-arms on breast, and smaller coats-of-arms on wings. A breathtaking Specimen of historical importance and one of the true rarities of the later Russian imperial series, listed in Bitkin as a "donative". With a denomination of a '1/2 Imperial' of 5 Roubles and the equivalent weight of the current 7 Roubles 50 Kopecks piece, this impressive treasure faces up with fully brilliant, reflective surfaces, amply frosted motifs and sunny yellow-gold appearance. A celebrated occasion to witness in this exalted quality, as the present offering is tied with one other in the PCGS census as the sole graded Specimen examples. NGC treats these as business strikes and lists three MS and one MS Deep Prooflike in their graded population, the latter an MS62 and none finer extant. A quick look at the publicly auctioned pieces unsurprisingly reveals an absolute dearth of availability to commerce, as the previous sale was also by Heritage when we handled the other PCGS graded piece in our January 2018 New York auction realizing $156,000. Undoubtedly a candidate for a singular trophy piece to an elite cabinet of Russian coinage, and one that we anticipate will be fiercely contested as an unmissable opportunity. https://coins.ha.com/itm/russia/russia-nicholas-ii-gold-specimen-1-2-imperial-of-5-roubles-1895-aand-1043-sp62-pcgs-/a/3113-31260.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3113-01082024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 100000-120000 USD |  |
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| Spink > Auction 23151 | Auction date: 14 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 2006 Price realized: 370,000 GBP (Approx. 464,766 USD / 430,977 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: (g) NGC PF63+ UCAM | William IV (1830-1837), Pattern Proof Five-Pounds, 1831, struck from the Coronation 'W.W.' Crown dies in .999 Fine Gold, by William Wyon after Francis Chantrey and Jean-Baptiste Merlen for the Royal Mint, GULIELMUS IIII D: G: BRITANNIAR: REX F: D: bare head right, W.W. buried in truncation, rev. crowned shield-of-arms within the Collar of the Order of the Garter and draped with ermine mantle, St George pendant below, edge plain, [Median Spink XRF: 99.99% Au], 39.828g [614.64grns], 5h ("A Memoir of the Life and Works of William Wyon ESQ A.R.A, Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint", Nicholas Carlisle [1837], pp. 107-109; "The Wyons", L S Forrer [Spink, 1917], p. 103; KM Pn99; Fb. 381; PCGS ID 531509/542036; MCE p. 94, Pattern 34a; L&S 2, p. 71 this coin mentioned; Davies 300; W&R 270 [R5]; ESC 272 [R5]; Bull 2463 [R5]; Holloway GH 102; Sainthill -; Montagu 1086; Murdoch 437; Nobleman 198; Wertheimer 176 = Lingford 533; Blake BL310 this coin ['6 known']; Lady Duveen 64 = Douglas-Morris 184 ['about 10 known']; Spink 3833), an historic scratch to forehead with the faintest wisps to fields, below neckline and to right of mantle above the expected die flaw, with delicate carbon spotting to peripheries, otherwise entirely original and utterly splendiferous, the "frabjous" fields of Wyon's auriferous "wonderland" canon a befittingly exalted canvas for the strikingly high relief and stupendously cameo "Coronation portrait" personally approved by the King from this very obverse die, from an exceedingly limited corpus; this the viable finest of the nine confirmed specimens; truly "fresh from the die" and technically FDC, totally unblemished by recent 'conservation' or even rim contact marks that plague the extremities of every other known survivor, simply put: outrageous; extraordinary; and practically peerless; unseen at public auction for almost a CENTURY, having previously blessed the Alfred John Morris; George Hamilton-Smith; Hugh Vincent Summers, George Blake and Charles Dabney-Thompson cabinets, in NGC 'St. Helier' holder, conservatively graded PF63+ ULTRA CAMEO (Cert. #6767923-004) [Only 1 Certified Finer]. Provenance, ~ Recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records (1969) as the most expensive British coin ever sold at the time. For context, the average house price in the United Kingdom in July 1966 was £3,558.0.0 ~ , Spink, by private treaty, 4 July 1966 - £5,350.0.0, Charles Dabney-Thompson, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1965, SCMB, June 1956, BL310* - "AV Five Pounds, 1831, Pattern by William Wyon and Merlen...only six coins of this denomination are believed to have been issued. brilliant, FDC, RRRR" - £800.0.0, George Blake, collection purchased by Seaby, May 1956, ~ 1956: "In May of this year we were able to announce the purchase of the George Blake collection, which was one of the best we have bought in recent years. Pieces worth noting where the Cromwell half-broad, Charles II Petition and Reddite crowns, the George III five guineas of 1777, and the William IV five pounds of 1831" (H A Seaby, SCMB, July 1966, p. 241) ~, B A Seaby, by private treaty with George Blake, by February 1947, Hugh Vincent Summers ['XYZ'], collection purchased by Seaby, 1946, George Hamilton-Smith (died 18 November 1926), Glendining, 23-25 May 1927, lot 189 - "Pattern Five Pound Piece, 1831....edge plain, brilliant and of great rarity" - £110.0.0 [Spink for H V Summers], "Formerly in the Morris Collection", Alfred John Morris (5 February 1880 - 16 January 1943), collection sold by private treaty to Hamilton-Smith, between April and July 1922, Little is known about the Morris collection, as only Hamilton-Smith seems to have directly or at least publicly benefitted from it. It contributed at least three coins, a 1770 Pattern Five Guineas, an 1820 Five Pounds and this 1831 Five Pounds which is rather telling of its calibre and quality. Indeed Morris, first appears on the radar at the Nobleman sale of 27 March 1922, when he newly-registers as a commission bidder with Spink for the sale. Presenting the profile of an investor, strangely Morris targets only four lots - the strikings in silver of the 1820 Five-Pounds and Two-Pounds; a Pattern 1816 Sovereign, and finally lot 67A - the Incorrupta Crown in Gold. Strikingly no effort was made towards bidding for the Pattern Five Guineas, the 1820 Five Pounds or indeed the Renotiere example of the 1831 Gold piece - highly suggestive of a pre-existing collection, but an especially targeted focus when bidding. In each case Morris would be defeated by Spink's separate commission bidder Virgil Michael Brand, perhaps initiating Morris to apply for membership to the British Numismatic Society only a month later whereupon he would undoubtedly have met one of its council members, George Hamilton-Smith who probably persuaded him to approach him in his separate capacity as newly acting director of auctioneer Glendining's. His father had founded a company of upholsterer spring manufacturers, having started his career as a book-keeper in Belper, Derbyshire. Partnering with Edward Bagshaw, the firm of Bagshaw and Morris operated under the Morris' sole ownership from 43 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch between 1889 and 1935. It claimed to be the oldest manufacturer of coppered-steel springs for the upholstery trade. , , Corpus:, , 1) The Arnold Specimen (May 1993); Private Collection [PCGS PR63 DCAM] , , 2) The Murdoch Specimen (January 2020), 39.87g; Private Collection [PCGS PR63 DCAM - Cert. #39237162] , , 3) The Duveen Specimen (October 2020), 39.90g; Submitted for grading, Sarasota, Florida (January 2014), and 'brown'-holdered [NGC PF63 UCAM - Cert. #3731659-001]; Resubmitted and "conserved" before sale in Monaco; Private Collection [NGC PF66* UCAM - Cert. #5744153-004] , , 4) The St. Helier Specimen (May 1927), 39.828g, this coin; [NGC PF63+ UCAM - Cert. #6767923-004] , , 5) The Paramount Specimen (January 2023), 40.446g; graded NGC Proof Details ~ Obverse Tooled [Cert. #6066350-025]; Private Collection, presently unencapsulated. , , 6) The Thomas H Law Specimen (August 2013); [NGC PF63 UCAM]. , , 7) The Strauss Specimen (May 1994); [PCGS PR61 DCAM] , , 8) The Hunterian Specimen (-), ex Major-General William Yorke-Moore, Sotheby's, 21 April 1879, lot 340 - £22.0.0 [Rollin & Feuardent for Burns]; Edward Burns, by private treaty with Coats; Thomas Coats, collection bequeathed to Hunterian Museum, 1921 , , 9) The Ashmolean Specimen (-) , , https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/6767923-004/63/ Estimate: £240000 - £300000 |  |
Match 5:
| MDC Monnaies de Collection sarl > Auction 14 | Auction date: 3 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 1335 Price realized: 1,300,000 EUR (Approx. 1,389,483 USD) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: POLOGNE - POLAND Sigismond III Vasa (1587-1632). 80 ducats 1621 SA / II - VE, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz). PCGS AU50 (43297976). Av. * SIGISMVNDVS* III* D: G: POLONIÆ* ET* SVECIÆ* REX*. Buste cuirassé, la tête nue, avec col en dentelles et écharpe, revêtu de l'Ordre de la toison d'or. Au bas, signature S. A et petite (date) derrière le buste. Rv. * MAGNVS* DVX* LITVAN: RVSS: - :PRVSS: MAS: SAM: LIVON: ZC':*. Écu écartelé de Pologne aux 1 et 4 (aigle couronné) et de Lituanie aux 2 et 3 (cavalier au galop à gauche, l'épée levée et tenant un écu), avec écu de Suède en cœur, écartelé de Suède aux 1 et 4 (trois couronnes) et de Gothie aux 2 et 3 (lion couronné), avec écu de Wasa en cœur (gerbe). Le tout est couronné et entouré du collier de l'Ordre de la Toison d'or ; au-dessus (date). Fr.- - KM.F43 - Hutton-Czapski - - Kopicki.1443 - Kaminski.1768 - Dutkowski.95 - Kaleniecki p.106 (cet ex.) - Jasek coins A/A ; Or - 282,54 g - 69 mm - 12 h Top Pop : c'est le seul exemplaire gradé ! Provient de la collection Clifton-Wild acquis lors de la vente Stack's de décembre 1995, n° 820 ; provenant auparavant de la vente Crédit de la Bourse, avril 1992, n° 806 et antérieurement collection Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz et peut-être de la collection Virgil Brand (qui possédait un 70, un 80 et un 100 ducats). PCGS AU50 (43297976). Légère usure, régulière, des reliefs, avec de petites marques de manipulation dans les champs. De beaux reflets dorés autour des reliefs. Impressionnant buste, dans toute sa majesté. Exceptionnel et une pièce de Musée ! TTB à Superbe. Par Samuel Amman, graveur (SA) et Jakub Jakubson Von Emden (II-VE), maître de la Monnaie de Bromberg. Amman a auparavant travaillé à la Monnaie de Dantzig de 1610 à 1613, où il apportait un grand soin à ses gravures. Exceptionnelle par sa taille et sa beauté, cette frappe de prestige a probablement été réalisée à la suite de la bataille de Khotyn qui voit les forces polono-lithuaniennes, catholiques, l'emporter sur les troupes ottomanes, musulmanes. C'est la première grande victoire qui marque l'arrêt de l'expansion ottomane POLAND Sigismund III Vasa (1587-1632). 80 ducats 1621 SA / II - VE, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz). Obv. * SIGISMVNDVS* III* D: G: POLONIÆ* ET* SVECIÆ* REX*. Armored bust, bare head wearing a lace collar and a sash, adorned with the Golden Fleece's order. Below : signature S. A and small (date) behind the bust. Rev. * MAGNVS* DVX* LITVAN: RVSS: - :PRVSS: MAS: SAM: LIVON: ZC':*. Quartered shield with arms of Poland at 1 and 4 (crowned eagle) and of Lithuania at 2 and 3 (galloping rider facing left, raising a sword and holding a shield), with shield of Sweden in the center, quartered with arms of Sweden at 1 and 4 (three crowns) and Gothie at 2 and 3 (crowned lion), with shield of Wasa in the center (sheaf). The whole shield crowned and surrounded by the Golden Fleece's collar ; above (date). Fr.- - KM.F43 - Hutton-Czapski - - Kopicki.1443 - Kaminski.1768 - Dutkowski.95 - Kaleniecki p.106 (this example) - Jasek coins A/A; Gold - 282.54g - 69 mm - 12 h. Top Pop : this is the only graded example ! From the Clifton-Wild collection acquired during Stack's sale of December 1995, n°820; previously from the Crédit de la Bourse sale, April 1992, n°806 and previously from the Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz collection and maybe from the Virgil Brand collection (who owned a 70, an 80 and a 100 ducats coins) PCGS AU50. Light and regular wear on reliefs with small handling marks in the fields. Beautiful golden reflections around the reliefs. Impressive majestic bust. Exceptional museum coin ! Almost uncirculated. By Samuel Amman, engraver (SA) and Jakub Jakubson Von Emden (II-VE), director of the Bromberg mint. Amman previously worked at the Danzig mint from 1610 to 1613, where his engravings were very neat. Exceptional in its size and beauty, this prestigious strike was probably created after the Battle of Khotyn during which the Polish-Lithuanian, who were catholics, defeated the Ottoman, who were muslims. It was the first major victory marking the end of the Ottoman expansion. Starting price: 1300000 EUR |  |
