Your Collection in Best Hands
Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG is among the leading auction and trading houses for coins and medals.
Since 1971, the family business stands for professional expertise, reliability and soundness with best international ties to collectors, traders, auction houses and experts. Besides buying and selling coins and medals, as well as four internationally renowned auctions per year, the trade with gold and investment coins is an important mainstay of the company too.
Our extensive range of coins and medals from antiquity to the present is unique in Europe and a treasure chest for collectors and amateurs. In more than 270 successful auctions, the first being in 1985, our thoroughly designed auction catalogues and the smooth, professional course of our auctions have delighted collectors and traders from all over the world.
In the area of gold trade, we offer our customers additionally a wide range of superb gold and investments coins, and buy large gold values at fair up to date prices.
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Dates
Auction 284, part 2 - Orders and Decorations on www.eLive-Auction.de
05. - 06. October 2016
eLive Auction 42
18. - 20. October 2016
Our Fall Auctions 280-284 are online.
We are pleased to inform you that our upcoming auctions are ready to be viewed online. We are looking forward to welcome you to our Fall Auctions 280-284 in Osnabruck from September 26-30, 2016. The numismatic spectrum will range from antiquity to modern times, from Germany to Europe to overseas. Furthermore, there will also be exquisite offerings in the field of phaleristics: Auction 284, part 1 will consist of about 300 lots of selected orders and decorations. The auction 284, part 2 will be continued online on www.eLive-Auction.de and takes place on October 5 and 6, 2016.
Please click here to go directly to our Fall Auctions.
Best regards
Your Künker-Team
Results of our eLive Auction 41
Dear bidders and coin enthusiasts,
After three exciting days of our eLive Auction 41 we would like to thank the numerous bidders for their interest and active participation. Around 91% of the 1,867 lots were bid on and with a total hammer price of 410,000 euro the estimate was exceeded by 76%.
Your Künker-Team
Results of our Summer-Auctions 277-279
Dear Bidders and Coin Enthusiasts,
on the evening of June 23, 2016, our three-day Summer Auctions 277-279 came to an end. We are glad that we were able to welcome more than 270 bidders personally on the floor. In total more than 1,800 bidders attended the auction. The 3,000 lot numbers reached a total hammer price of 9.2 million euros (estimate 7 million euros).
All results can be checked in detail here.
We would like to thank you, our customers, for your participation and for your trust in us! We are looking forward to welcome you to our Fall-Auctions in Osnabruck from September 26-30, 2016.
Best regards from Osnabrück,
Your Künker-Team
Results from our eLive Auction 40
After two exciting days our eLive Auction 40 ended on the evening of May 19th, 2016.
We would like to thank the numerous bidders for their interest and active participation.
Results of our Spring Auction
After five auction days our Spring-Auction came to an end on the evening of March 18, 2016. We are glad that we were able to welcome more than 350 bidders personally on the floor. We reached with the 5.700 lot numbers a total hammer price of 10.7 million euros (estimate 7.3 million euros). More than 3.000 bidders attended the auction.
Noteworthy was the impressive result of the coins from the Roman Empire with around 2.2 million euros (estimate: approx. 1.4 million euros). Another group of amazing results came from the many medieval rarities from Denmark, England and France. The ensemble of gold coins from the German Empire reached another remarkable total hammer price of 740,000 euros (estimate: approx. 570,000 euros).
Here you will find all results of the auction
Results of our Auction 272 - eLive Premium
On February 11th, 2016 our eLive Premium Auction ended with an impressive overall result of more than 1.1 Million euros, which is 2.5 times of the original estimate of 425,000 euros.
Especially the many rarities of the fourth part of the Ernst Otto Horn Collection were very popular among the bidders. The result of these 1,418 lots reached a stunning 600,000 euros, which is triple the original appraisal. But also the second part of the auction, which was comprised of Russian coins and medals, ended with more than doubling its estimate.
Results of our Berlin-Auction 2016
On the evening of February 4th, 2016, we finished our 11th Berlin-Auction with a big success.
The 912 lot numbers with an estimate of 4.8 million euros reached a total hammer price of more than 6.6 million euros. Noteworthy was the result of the Saxonian series with a total hammer price of more than half a million euros (approximately 50% over the estimate). Furthermore, the series of Russian coins and medals reached an impressive result with a total hammer of 1.6 mio. euros, from an estimate of 1.2 mio. euros.