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V19 2016 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 28, July 10, 2016, Article 24

About 3,000 lots sold for a hammer price of over nine million euros at the Künker summer auctions held June 21-23, 2016. Here are the highlights from the post-sale press release.

Digital photography has been with us for some time now, but I still marvel at what an eye-opening experience it has been. Coins that once would have been illustrated (if at all) in line engravings or grainy black-and-white photos are now pictured in high resolution color - and not just sale highlights, every single lot.

There are some marvelous examples of the coin makers art shown here, from ancient times to modern. -Editor

Please find all results at www.kuenker.de. The fall-auctions will take place September 26-30, 2016. You may order catalogues at Künker, Nobbenburgerstrasse 4a, D-49076 Osnabrück; phone: + 49 541 96202 0; fax: + 49 541 96202 22; or via email: service@kuenker.de. Consignments will be taken in up to 12 weeks prior to the next auction.

Lot 3: PARISII (Celts). Gold stater, around 60 BC. Very rare. Good very fine. Estimate: 20.000,- euros. Hammer price: 23.000,- euros

Lot 8: TARENTUM (Calabria). Gold stater, 334-332. Very rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 40.000,- euros. Hammer price: 46.000,- euros

Lot 146: POSTUMUS, 260-268. Aureus, 261, Cologne. Extremely rare. Good very fine / Extremely fine. Estimate: 20.000,- euros. Hammer price: 38.000,- euros

Lot 167: VALENTINIAN III, 425-455. Solidus, 437, Thessalonica. Extremely rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 30.000,- euros. Hammer price: 42.000,- euros

Lot 197: ARTABASDOS, 742-743. Solidus with Nicephorus. Extremely rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 35.000,- euros. Hammer price: 44.000,- euros

Lot 243: RUSSIA. Silver medal 1708 by S. Gouin, on Russian Admiral Fyodor Apraksin. Later, 18th century-striking. Very rare. Extremely fine to FDC. Estimate: 3.000,- euros. Hammer price: 30.000,- euros

Lot 345: RUSSIA. Alexander I, 1801-1825. Gold medal of 48 ducats 1814, designed by Czarina Maria Feodorovna. Extremely rare. Almost FDC from polished dies. Estimate: 125.000,- euros. Hammer price: 175.000,- euros.

Lot 403: RUSSIA. Gold medal 1838 by P. Utkin, on the groundbreaking of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Extremely rare. FDC. Estimate: 125.000,- euros. Hammer price: 200.000,- euros

Lot 1006: BELGIUM. Small cast silver medal by J. Jonghelinck, on Dutch lawyer and ambassador of Charles V, Vigilius Ayta van Zuychem (1507-1577). Very rare. Extremely fine original cast. Estimate: 750,- euros. Hammer price: 9.500,- euros

Lot 1140: FRANCE / LORRAINE. Charles III, 1545-1608. Reichstaler n.d. (1559). Ex Vogel Collection. Very rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 15.000,- euros. Hammer price: 28.000,- euros

Lot 1422: Silver medal 1629, on the capture of the Spanish Silver Fleet by Dutch Admiral Piet Heyn in Matanzas Bay. Extremely rare. Almost extremely fine. Estimate: 2.500,- euros. Hammer price: 20.000,- euros

Lot 1785: GERMANY / BRUNSWICK-LÜNEBURG. George William, 1648-1665. Löser of 5 reichstaler 1660, Zellerfeld. Extremely rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 15.000,- euros. Hammer price: 65.000,- euros

Lot 3013: GERMANY / REGENSBURG. 5 ducats 1627, on the groundbreaking of the Trinity Church on July 4. Very rare. Trace of mounting, very fine. Estimate: 3.000,- euros. Hammer price: 9.500,- euros

Lot 3018: GERMANY / REGENSBURG. Ducat 1634. Extremely rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 15.000,- euros. Hammer price: 30.000,- euros

Lot 3087: GERMANY / REGENSBURG. Convention taler n.d. (1790-1792) with title of Leopold II. Extremely rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 5.000,- euros. Hammer price: 20.000,- euros

Lot 3118: GERMANY / BAVARIA. Maximilian III, 1745-1777. Ducat 1762, Munich, Isar river gold. Extremely rare year. Extremely fine. Estimate: 15.000,- euros. Hammer price: 32.000,- euros

So THAT'S where rivers come from... I like this one - a simple, unbusy design. -Editor

Lot 3210: GERMANY / HESSE-KASSEL. William V, 1627-1637. 10 ducats 1634, Kassel. Willow striking. Probably only known specimen in private hands. Extremely fine. Estimate: 200.000,- euros. Hammer price: 220.000,- euros

There's a lot going on in that obverse scene. The coin design is very busy, but typical for the period and not nearly as bad as many other pieces of the era. A pleasing and interesting coin. -Editor

Lot 3220: GERMANY / LÖWENSTEIN. Charles Thomas, 1735-1789. 2 ducats 1754, Nuremberg. Very rare. Probably unedited. Extremely fine. Estimate: 10.000,- euros. Hammer price: 24.000,- euros

Lot 3958: GERMAN EMPIRE. Prussia. William I, 1861-1888. 10 mark 1878 B. J. 245B. Extremely rare. Very fine. Estimate: 50.000,- euros. Hammer price: 60.000,- euros

Lot 4073: GERMAN EMPIRE. Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. Ernest II, 1844-1893. 20 mark 1872. J. 270. Very rare. Good very fine. Estimate: 50.000,- euros. Hammer price: 60.000,- euros

Lot 4299: GERMAN EMPIRE / DANZIG. Pattern for 10 pfennig 1923. Extremely rare. Extremely fine. Estimate: 500,- euros. Hammer price: 4.600,- euros

I've always enjoyed Danzig coinage and have collected a few pieces overthe years. The gothic lettering style is interesting and distinctive. -Editor