Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2022 i World Coin News

THE FINAL YEARS of Empress Elizabeth, who reigned from November 1741 to December 1761, were full of history. This was the time of the Seven Years’ War in Europe and the French & Indian War in Colonial America. The numismatic scene, to the modern collector, is just as interesting because of the many changes that occurred. During the early to mid-1750s the government had engaged in intensive discussions and investigation of the factors that affected the monetary system. Count Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov then made several detailed proposals for improvement. The most prominent of these concerned the gold and copper coinages, but silver also came in for its share of variety. The first major change in the silver coinage came with the striking of 5-kopeck pieces in 1755. This new coin…

KÜNKER FINISHED AUCTION sales 358 and 259 on Jan. 26, 2022. Both auctions were a tremendous success. The 772 lots realized 10.4 million euros, well over 11 million USD, soaring above their estimated 7 million euros. The Köhlmoos Collection played a major role in the success of the auction sale: it realized a total result of 2.8 million euros, which is an increase of 40 percent compared to its estimate. The highest price within this collection was achieved by a specimen of the earliest klappmützentaler type featuring the authentic portrait of Frederick the Wise. The iconic piece climbed from an estimate of 20,000 euros to a hammer price of 75,000 euros – and still did not make Künker’s Top Five. The selection of rare lösers of excellent quality from the…

THE ROYAL MINT has confirmed that a 50-pence coin celebrating Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee will be released into circulation via post offices across the U.K. from Monday Feb. 7. The special 50-pence coin features a commemorative Platinum Jubilee design on the reverse side of the coin and will be circulated following the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty’s accession to the throne in 1952. The collaboration with U.K. post offices ensures that members of the public will get the chance to receive the special 50-pence coin in their change at branches nationwide from Feb. 7 onwards. The Royal Mint has already started to strike the coins at their highly secure site in South Wales, with a pressure of around 60 tonnes striking up to 850 coins a minute. It…

STEPHEN ALBUM RARE Coins held its Auction 42 on Jan. 20-23, 2022, at its offices in Santa Rosa, Calif. The prices realized were yet another new record for the company coming in at $2.63 million (including buyer’s fees) with a sell-through rate of 97.4 percent. Some sections such as the Chinese coins achieved a nearly 100 percent sell-through rate. Many items went for multiples of their estimates, including some world record results. Several collections helped achieve those totals, namely the Joe Sedillot Collection of World Coins, Part I, and the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part III. A selection of highlights follows (prices include buyer’s fees): The firm is soon publishing an internet auction on March 7-8, which will feature 2,000 lots of a wide variety of all categories.…

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, the famous network of safe houses and secret routes that helped enslaved people of African descent escape to freedom in Canada, is the subject of the Royal Canadian Mint’s latest issue in its ongoing Commemorating Black History coin series. Launched in conjunction with the start of Black History Month, this silver collector coin designed by Toronto artist Kwame Delfish, portrays in a unique perspective the human side of the perilous northward migration, which reached its peak in the 1850s and 1860s. This moving new collectible became available as of Feb. 1, 2022. “The employees of the Royal Canadian Mint are proud to once again add to the national celebration of Black History Month with a beautiful silver coin that brings the important story of the Underground Railroad…

LOOKING AT THINGS from a Tibetan point of view, the modern era began with the installation of the 14th Dalai Lama, who was installed in 1940 and is still in place. From a Chinese point of view, Tibet was a Chinese territory that had wandered away, politically speaking, and was brought back where it belonged in 1959, and that’s the beginning of the “modern era.” We have to keep this double viewpoint in mind as we consider Tibet. The whole time those coins we try to collect were being made, China was saying that the Tibetan government was illegal, and Tibet was part of China. They just weren’t able to do anything about it until 1950. There is a Sino-Tibetan history of the period, and there is an internal Tibetan…

FOLLOWING A RECORD-BREAKING year in 2021, the World and Ancient Coin Department at Stack’s Bowers Galleries saw continued strong prices as over $20 million in numismatic items crossed the block in their annual official auction of the New York International Numismatic Convention. (All prices include the buyer’s fee.) The sale featured numerous important collections and brought to light many treasures that had been off the market for years. Part 1 of the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection included Greek, Polish, and Russian rarities, many offered for the first time since the 1930s. The Salton cabinet of Polish gold exceeded expectations, generating strong prices far beyond the catalog estimates, led by two large sized medallic issues from the reign of Sigismund III. A 1595 Medal in 10 Ducat Weight struck in…