350 - 300 BC. Charming style! Finely toned and
well-centred on a broad flan! Extremely fine.
521 - 478 BC. Electron! RR! Bodenstedt lists only 8 examples!
Masterpiece of archaic art! Extremely fine.
Dareike ø 17mm (8,21g). 361 - 364 BC. Gold!
Otherwise unknown variant of the rare type! RRR!
Marcus Antonius 38 BC. Aureus ø 19mm (8,15g).
Gold! RRR! Very fine.
Aureus ø 20mm (5,10g).Gold! RR!
Mint state splendid specimen!
AE obol ø 28mm (14.69g). Marvellous black-brown patina,
extremely fine.
BRANDENBURG / PRUSSIA. Frederick William,
“the Great Elector”, 1640 - 1688. 1682 LCS ducat, Berlin.
CITY OF REGENSBURG. double ducat without year
(1745 - 1765), Regensburg.
Maximilian I, 1490-1519. Guldiner without year, Hall.
Attractive toning, slight mint weakness, almost extremly fine.
Alexander I, 1801 - 1825. 1812 ruble , St. Petersburg.
Splendid specimen! Extremely rare in this condition.
Stack’s Realizes Nearly $23 Million in Hong Kong Auction
Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio
April 2024 Hong Kong Auction
Coins
15-22 April 2024
HK-Hong Kong
Auction house Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio continued their market-leading Hong Kong sales with another successful spring auction held in April. The firm presented 9,558 lots of coins, medals, tokens, and currency, which realized a total of $22.96 million. With this lofty sum, the firm celebrates its seventh consecutive Hong Kong sale with total prices exceeding $20 million – a stunning benchmark proving that, when Chinese and related coinage is sold, it is Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio that provides notable results. (All prices include the buyer’s premium.)
Lot 40119: CHINA. Gold K’uping Tael Pattern, CD (1907). Tientsin Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). PCGS SPECIMEN-61. Estimate: $400,000-$500,000. Result: $720,000.
Rarities Night represented the majority of the superb prices, with a Mint State 1906 Gold K’uping Tael Pattern realizing $720,000, and the remarkable “mint sport” Silver Dollar featuring General Chang Tso-lin bringing $540,000. An elusive 1932 “Birds under Junk” Silver Dollar (or “Sun”) Pattern brought $528,000, an 1898 Kiangnan Dollar sold for $480,000, and a specimen 1911 Silver “Reversed Dragon” Dollar Pattern fetched $456,000.
Lot 43391: Philippines. Philippines – Peru. 2 Reales, ND (ca. 1834-37). Manila Mint. Isabel II. PCGS VF-20; Countermark: VF Details. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000. Result: $96,000
Stunning results were not limited to Rarities Night, however, with other strong realizations coming in the form of a Filipino 2 Reales (countermarked upon a Peruvian host) that realized $96,000, an 1864 Hong Kong Silver Dollar Pattern, a 2018 Great Britain Gold 1000 Pounds, and a 1953 People’s Bank of China 10 Yuan that each brought $78,000, and an early 20th century Pei-Yang Tientsin Bank 1 Tael Front Color Trial Specimen that sold for $72,000.
Other World Coin Highlights:
- Lot 40023: China. Fengtien. 7 Mace 2 Candareens (Dollar), CD (1903). Fengtien Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). PCGS MS-64. Sold for $264,000.
- Lot 40024: China. Fengtien. 7 Mace 2 Candareens (Dollar), CD (1903). Fengtien Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). PCGS MS-64. Sold for $276,000.
Lot 40050: China. Kiangnan. Copper 7 Mace 2 Candareens (Dollar) Pattern, ND (1897). Birmingham (Heaton) Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). PCGS SPECIMEN-63 Brown. Estimate: $300,000-$500,000. Result: $312,000.
- Lot 40050: China. Kiangnan. Copper 7 Mace 2 Candareens (Dollar) Pattern, ND (1897). Birmingham (Heaton) Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). PCGS SPECIMEN-63 Brown. Sold for $312,000.
- Lot 40087: China. Kweichow. Auto Dollar (7 Mace 2 Candareens), Year 17 (1928). Uncertain Mint, likely Chengdu. PCGS MS-61. Sold for $228,000.
- Lot 40089: China. Kweichow. Auto Dollar (7 Mace 2 Candareens), Year 17 (1928). Uncertain Mint, likely Chengdu. PCGS AU-58. Sold for $252,000.
- Lot 40120: China. Silver Tael Pattern Restrike, CD (1906). Tientsin Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). NGC MS-65. Sold for $312,000.
- Lot 40123: China. 7 Mace 2 Candareens (Dollar), ND (1908). Tientsin Mint. Kuang-hsu (Guangxu). PCGS SPECIMEN-64. Sold for $372,000.
![Lot 40170: China. Gold Dollar Pattern, ND (1916). Tientsin Mint. Hung-hsien (Hongxian [Yuan Shih-kai]). PCGS SPECIMEN-64+. Estimate: $300,000-$500,000. Result: $396,000.](https://new.coinsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024KW21NB01_04.jpg "Lot 40170: China. Gold Dollar Pattern, ND (1916). Tientsin Mint. Hung-hsien (Hongxian [Yuan Shih-kai]). PCGS SPECIMEN-64+. Estimate: $300,000-$500,000. Result: $396,000.")
Lot 40170: China. Gold Dollar Pattern, ND (1916). Tientsin Mint. Hung-hsien (Hongxian [Yuan Shih-kai]). PCGS SPECIMEN-64+. Estimate: $300,000-$500,000. Result: $396,000.
- Lot 40170: China. Gold Dollar Pattern, ND (1916). Tientsin Mint. Hung-hsien (Hongxian [Yuan Shih-kai]). PCGS SPECIMEN-64+. Sold for $396,000.
- Lot 40171: China. Dollar, ND (1916). Tientsin Mint. Hung-hsien (Hongxian [Yuan Shih-kai]). PCGS MS-66. Sold for $264,000.
