Estimated price: $30.000CYPRUS. Salamis. Menelaus (ca. 310-306 BC).
AV stater (17mm, 8.33 gm, 6h).
NGC Choice AU★ 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style2024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #3119106001
Estimated price: $25.000Zeeland. Provincial gold Off-Metal Ducat 1764
UNC Details (Reverse Repaired) NGC2024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #311966008
Estimated price: $25.000Gaius (Caligula) (AD 37-41), with Agrippina Senior.
AV aureus (20mm, 7.76 gm, 6h). NGC AU 4/5 - 4/52024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #3119129005
Estimated price: $15.000Charles II gold 5 Guineas 1673 AU55 PCGS2024 November 1 - 2 World & Ancient Coins Platinum
Session and Signature® Auction #311960001
Estimated price: $12.500Central American Republic gold 8
Escudos 1833 CR-F MS61 NGC107001
Estimated price: $20.000João VI gold 4000 Reis 1820-(b) AU Details (Cleaned) PCGS58001
Estimated price: $25.000LYDIAN KINGDOM. Croesus (561-546 BC).
AV stater (17mm, 10.77 gm). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 5/5129008
Estimated price: $25.000Holland. Provincial gold Proof Pattern Ducaton (Silver Rider)
1672 PR63 NGC66006
Estimated price: $20.000Julius Caesar, as Consul for the Third Time (46 BC),
with Aulus Hirtius, as Praetor. AV aureus
(20mm, 7.91 gm, 9h). NGC MS★ 4/5 - 5/5129007
Estimated price: $10.000Philip III 8 Reales 1618 (Aqueduct)-A MS66 NGC130001
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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.

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

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. 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.

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.

Complete prices realized for the Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio April 2024 Hong Kong (SAR) Auction can be found in the catalog library.

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