Lodewijk S. Beuth’s career as a collector began when he wanted to acquire some gold coins at the Schulman coin shop in the 1950s, with the end of the Second World War still a vivid memory. He wanted to purchase some gold so that he would have a small stock for emergencies. Jacques Schulman suggested that he invested in pieces of numismatic importance instead. Lodewijk Beuth was convinced by the charismatic coin dealer’s arguments, caught the numismatic bug and dreamed the dream of assembling the largest and most beautiful collection of Dutch coins of his generation. He lived up to his aspirations.
The first part of this unique collection was put on the market on 27 and 28 September 2023. Künker sold it in collaboration with Laurens Schulman B. V. in Osnabrück. It was a major event for the community of collectors of Dutch coins, many of which personally attended the auction sale. After all, it had been almost half a century since a comparable collection entered the market.
This was also reflected by the hammer prices. The total estimate had been a little over 2m euros. The total result was 5.2m euros, i.e., more than two and a half times the estimate.
There were numerous remarkable individual results. We present the ten most expensive pieces of the Beuth Collection. Many of them broke previous records. For example, according to CoinArchives, the highest result of a coin from the Kingdom of the Netherlands had been at 117,000 euros. Read on to find out about the new record.
As always, if two coins achieved the same result, the specimen with the higher increase in price compared to its estimate will receive the higher rank.
This means, the joint sale of Künker and Laurens Schulman set several records at once
We used CoinArchives as the basis for this review.
Although we only presented high-priced coins in this auction review, there were many pieces in both sales that any collector could have afforded. See for yourself and check out the results in detail.