In August, Künker published a whopper press release promoting FIVE upcoming sales.
The sales have now been held, and out came another whopper release on the prices realized.
Here's a small sampling with images of some of the coins we didn't have room to picture
before the sale. -Editor
Lot 1197: RUSSIA. Cross “Capture of Ismail”. December 11, 1790, restrike made in the 19th century.
RRU 72. Extremely rare. 1, II. Estimate: 5,000,- euros. Hammer price: 100,000 euros.
Lot 3287: HENNEBERG. William VI (1492-1559). Presentation piece in the weight of 3 thaler 1557
(coinage from later times, presumably made the 16th or the 17th cent.). Heus p. 187, fig. 107.
Single known specimen of this weight. About extremely fine. Estimate: 5,000,- euros. Hammer price:
10,000,- euros.
Lot 3955: FRIEDLAND. Albrecht of Wallenstein (1623-1634). Reichsthaler 1627, Jicin. Dav. 3439. Ex
Köhlmoos Coll. 91 (2001), 898. Very rare. Very fine. Estimate: 5,000,- euros. Hammer price:
22,000,- euros.
Lot 6634: GREAT BRITAIN. William III and Mary (1688-1694). 5 guineas, 1692, London. Fb. 299.
Acquired from Leu, Zurich 1999. Extremely fine. Estimate: 6,000,- euros. Hammer price: 60,000,-
euros.
Lot 6773: SWITZERLAND - BERN. 4 ducats 1796. Ex Hess-Divo 267 (1996), 1009. Fb. 177. Very rare.
About extremely fine. Estimate: 5,000,- euros. Hammer price: 17,000,- euros.
Lot 9076: POSTUMUS (260-268). Off-metal strike of the aureus coining dies, 268, Colonia. RIC 342.
Very rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 6,000,- euros. Hammer price: 14,000,- euros.
Lot 9099: LICINIUS II (317-324). Aureus, 321/322, Nicomedia. RIC 42. Very rare. Extremely fine.
Estimate: 60,000,- euros. Hammer price: 77,500,- euros.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
KÜNKER AUCTION SALES 253-257
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n36a24.html)
For more information, see:
www.kuenker.de/en
Wayne Homren, Editor
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