Gold numismatic auction
ARTinvestment.RU   24 апреля 2008

Company «Coins and Medals» April 12, 2008 held a jubilee auction No. 50

Company «Coins and Medals» April 12, 2008 anniversary auction held at number 50.

Hall of the Hotel Marriott, where traditionally they are tender, was too crowded. Gathered and these collectors and many dealers. Presented for auction the collection was very interesting: these were exhibited attraction - the era coins Alexei Mikhailovich. Very rare golden chetvertak in 1654, with a low start in the 300 000 rubles was purchased. Today's Russian numismatists collect the material mainly of Imperial Russia.

At the auction showed 600 lots, sold more than 90 percent of the material with high start-ups in prices. Extremely rare 2 pennies in 1740 were sold for 8 million rubles. Silver ruble in 1730, is also very rare, starts with an amount of 2.5 million rubles, and was sold over 4 million rubles. Very rare gold 10 rubles in 1755 at the start of 1300 million rubles have been purchased for the 1700 million rubles.

Coronation tokens for auction are not frequent. Silver Token memory coronation of Empress Catherine I 1 May, 1724, otchekanenny to Kadashevskaya Mint, grew from launch to 20 thousand rubles exactly five times.

The last auction was a new milestone in Russian numismatics. And it will be discussed for a long time local and foreign collectors.

Source: www.kultura-portal.ru