The first of four Gorny & Mosch sales begin Oct. 12. In the course of one week 5,500 lots with a total estimate of 3.2 million euros will be sold.The program is divided into “High-quality ancient coins”, “Ancient coins and lots”, “Medieval and world coins” and “Russia.” All four catalogs can be viewed at www.gmcoinart.de and can be purchased for 15 euros at Gorny & Mosch, Giessener Münzhandlung GmbH, Maximiliansplatz 20, D-80333 Munich; email: info@gmcoinart.de.
In Sale 180 there are 520 lots of selected ancient coins with a total estimate of 870,000 euros. Seven Celtic pieces are followed by roughly 250 Greek ones. Included are the incuse stater from Caulonia with the elegant figure of Apollo on its obverse and reverse (EF; 7,500 euros), the small series from Leontinoi including an extremely fine specimen of those tetradrachms usually attributed to the “Demareteion Master” (7,500 euros) and the Classical tetradrachm from Naxos with the beautiful Dionysos and the drunken Silenus (VF; 20,000 euros).
Sale 181 features ancient coins and lots. Approximately 2.000 lots with a total estimate of almost 600.000 euros are on offer featuring 46 Celtic, 568 Greek, 276 Roman Provincial, 122 Republican, 557 Roman Imperial and 226 Byzantine coins.
The Byzantine section will draw special interest, as the expert will find there a wide range of Byzantine bronze coins.
Sale 182 of Medieval and modern coins features 2.000 lots with a total estimate of 800,000 euros come from all five continents. The sale starts with almost 30 medieval pieces. The German section follows. Orders and decorations featuring Turkish cap badges with more than 200 lots, which is a special part of the Dogan collection sold by Gorny & Mosch in October 2008, lead over to the Austrian-Hungarian section containing about 180 lots.
World coins and medals from all five continents follow including big series of modern gold coins and coins commemorating the Olympic games. Europe has to offer a number of classic rarities as well, for example a small series of siege coins produced in 1592 during the fight over the bishopric of Strasbourg.
Sale 183 ends the week with a selection of Russian coins. There is a high number of rarities included in the approximately 1,700 lots with a total estimate of 950,000 euros. Among them is a 5 ruble piece of Catherine II struck in Moscow in 1763 (EF-BU; 75,000 euros) and a gold medal of Paul I (1796-1801) dedicated to princes, khans and voivodes of merit for the tsar (VF+; 90,000 euros).
The collection of the Norwegian Tom Willy Bakken, which will be sold at Gorny & Mosch’s in cooperation with Oslo Mynthandel, may be called a collector’s great dream. Bakken started to collect Russian copper coins in the early 1980s. In those times, it was easy to buy these pieces for little money – nobody was really interested in them. Hence, the collector had the opportunity to compile a unique series of all denominations, which were given out in Russia between 1700 and 1917. Almost 1.000 pieces are on offer at this sale featuring all types. The states of conservation range from fine to brilliant uncirculated, the estimates from 10 euros to 25,000.
Source: numismaster.com
