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What People Used to Pay With in South Africa

Coins are only the most recent of the many means of payment used in South Africa. And yet, there is much to be told about the country’s numismatic past. We tell the story of South African means of payment from glass beads to the rand.

Estimated price: 13,000 EUR79Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90Ptolemaic dynasty. Ptolemy IV, 221-204 BC. Octodrachm /
Mnaieion, Alexandria. Extremely fine.
Estimated price: 10,000 EUR187Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90Roman Empire. Nerva, 96-98. Aureus. Extremely fine.
Estimated price: 5,000 EUR208Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90Roman Empire. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Aureus.
From Münzen und Medaillen AG. About mint state.
Estimated price: 1,500 EUR568Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90Monaco. 2 euros 2007. 25th anniversary of the death of Grace
Kelly. Extremely fine to FDC.
Estimated price: 25,000 EUR1151Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90Nassau-Weilburg. Charles Christian, 1753-1788.
Gold medal of 25 ducats, 1782, by A. Schäffer. Extremely rare.
Extremely fine.
Estimated price: 10,000 EUR690Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90China. Hsuan Tung, 1908-1911. 20 cents n.d. (1908).
PCGS MS64. FDC.
Estimated price: 15,000 EUR733Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90China. Xinjiang. 1 mace n.d. (1907). PCGS AU55. Extremely fine.
Estimated price: 16,000 EUR994Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Christian Ernst, 1655-1712. 1679 taler,
Nuremberg. Extremely rare.
Estimated price: 13,000 EUR1993Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90German Empire. Oldenburg. 10 marks, 1874. Showpiece!
Extremely rare in this quality! PCGS MS63. About FDC.
Estimated price: 5,850 EUR2246Heidelberger Münzhandlung Grün: Auction 90German East Africa. 15 rupees, 1916, Tabora. About mint state.
Schätzpreis: 250,000 EURBerlin-Auktionen 379-380
Sachsen. Christian II. Johann Georg I. und August,
1 591-1611. 10 Dukaten 1611, Dresden, auf den Tod
Christians II. am 23. Juni. NGC: MS 65.

Von allergrößter Seltenheit.
835
Schätzpreis: 200,000 EURBraunschweig-Calenberg-Hannover. Johann Friedrich,
1665-1679. Löser zu 6 Reichstalern 1679, Zellerfeld.
Geprägt und verteilt anlässlich der Beerdigung
Johann Friedrichs. Aus Sammlung Salton und
Sammlung Meyerhof, Auktion Schulman 171 (1930),
Nr. 156. Äußerst selten. Fast vorzüglich.
156
Schätzpreis: 50.000,- EURSchweden. Erik XIV., 1560-1568.
Goldgulden 1568, Stockholm. Aus Sammlung Widegren.

Äußerst selten. Kleines Loch.
340
Schätzpreis: 250,000 EURBerlin-Auktionen 379-380
Sachsen. Christian II. Johann Georg I. und August,
1 591-1611. 10 Dukaten 1611, Dresden, auf den Tod
Christians II. am 23. Juni. NGC: MS 65.

Von allergrößter Seltenheit.
835
Schätzpreis: 200,000 EURBraunschweig-Calenberg-Hannover. Johann Friedrich,
1665-1679. Löser zu 6 Reichstalern 1679, Zellerfeld.
Geprägt und verteilt anlässlich der Beerdigung
Johann Friedrichs. Aus Sammlung Salton und
Sammlung Meyerhof, Auktion Schulman 171 (1930),
Nr. 156. Äußerst selten. Fast vorzüglich.
156
Schätzpreis: 50.000,- EURSchweden. Erik XIV., 1560-1568.
Goldgulden 1568, Stockholm. Aus Sammlung Widegren.

Äußerst selten. Kleines Loch.
340

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