Our upcoming August Global Showcase Auction (to be held August 22-26, with lot viewing the week before at this year’s ANA World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, Illinois) features a wide selection of well cultivated and well curated collections that encompass numerous areas within world coins. For aficionados of British coinage, Part III of the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection offers rarities both hammered and milled, with a particular focus upon the large silver issues of Charles I during the English Civil War as well as 17th-19th century gold denominations. Enhancing the British offerings in our August auction is the Augustana Collection, which features a variety of British highlights in gold along with an even more impressive—and almost never encountered—array of Czechoslovakian denominations, many from very small mintages.
The Robert C. Knepper Collection was built over four decades, with careful consideration paid to one of the more intriguing aspects of German coinage – the “wildman” – whose seminude, fully bearded iconography dominates the early modern coinage of Brunswick-Luneburg, among other locales. Moving east to Russia, the Sigma Collection presents incredible rarities from the 18th century and earlier, with countless crown-sized varieties from Russia’s first czar, Peter I (the Great), and his immediate Muscovite successors.
Spain and the New World are also well represented, with the Avrabanel Collection that offers splendid issues from the Bourbon kings forward, and is particularly expansive in Spain’s 19th century coinage. Paralleling these issues is another installment from the impressive Pat Johnson Collection featuring important specimens from colonial possessions in Latin America. A number of these are minor-sized denominations that are not often encountered.
The August Global Showcase Auction will also offer a wonderful array of ancient coinage as well as a great survey of the increasingly popular gold issues from the animal conservation series. No matter your collecting focus, be it ancient, medieval, early modern, or modern, or whether it lies within gold, silver, or other metals, the Stack’s Bowers August Auction will undoubtedly have something for everyone.
To view our upcoming auction schedule and future offerings, please visit StacksBowers.com where you may register and participate in this and other forthcoming sales.
We are always seeking coins, medals, and paper money for our future auctions, and are currently accepting submissions for our Official Auction of the 2023 NYINC in January and our 2023 Spring Hong Kong auction. Additionally, we are accepting submissions for our Collectors Choice Online (CCO) auctions, the next of which will be in October (and is rapidly filling up). If you would like to learn more about consigning, whether a singular item or an entire collection, please contact one of our consignment directors today and we will assist you in achieving the best possible return on your material.
