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Актуальные статьи в прессе о фирме Кюнкер


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Анне Вакенгут.
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Электронная почта: anna.wakengut@kuenker.de


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26.02.2020

The Origin of the Bavarian Beer Purity Law

A regulation of the Bavarian dukes William IV and his brother Louis X is still quoted frequently today: the “Reinheitsgebot” – the beer purity law of 1516. We tell its story with the help of coins from the Special Collection Bavaria, which will be on sale on 18 March 2020 at Künker.

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18.02.2020

Holy Citizens

On 18 March 2020, Künker’s auction No. 335 offers a special collection of medieval coins. It contains about 150 splendid bracteates. These Romanesque works of art take us back to a time when saints were regarded as fellow citizens willing to engage actively for the well-being of the community.

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13.02.2020

Jewish and cosmopolitan - in memory of the Samel and Arluk family

Please read the history of the Samel and Arluk family who compiled one of the most important collections of jewish coins over decades. The collection will be auctioned off by the Künker auction house in Osnabrück on march 17th 2020. 

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13.02.2020

The Samel Collection of Jewish Coins and Medals

The catalogue of auction 334 contains one of the most important collections of  Jewish  coins  which  will  be auctioned off by the Künker auction house in Osnabrück. The collection was compiled over decades by the Munich collector Josef Samel and his  sister Angela Arluk (née  Samel), who died in 2005 and 2015.

This coin collection covers the history of the Jewish people from the conquest of Judaeaby the Persians in the 6th century BC until the present day. However, the emphasis of the collection lies with ancient Jewish coinage.

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11.02.2020

A Feast by Collectors for Collectors - our spring auction sales 2020

It is very rare to see so many special collections at once as in our auction week taking place from 16 to 20 March 2020. The highlight is obviously the Samel Collection of Jewish coins; however, this is just one of more than 10 important special collections.

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28.01.2020

Special Collections in eLive Premium Auction 332

On 5 and 6 February 2020, an eLive Premium Auction will take place at Künker’s virtual auction room combining several collections: Lower Saxony, House of Habsburg and Goetz medals. Furthermore, the taler treasure of Betzenstein will be auctioned off.

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15.01.2020

Why the Middle Ages Were so Warlike

Künker’s Berlin Auction Sale 2020 offers an extremely rare chaise d’or of William III of Jülich struck between 1393 and 1402. It portrays the duke as a wise ruler. In fact, William was anything but that: When he came to power at the age of 13, he turned into somebody we would call a teenage bully nowadays.

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08.01.2020

Napoleon’s Eternal Glory

There are very few power seekers of the past that are met with such great admiration in today’s world as Napoleon Bonaparte. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is his way of self-portrayal, which had far-reaching consequences in the field of numismatics. We tell the story of one of his gold medals, which is a very special one: It belonged to Napoleon himself.

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08.01.2020

Vienna’s Salvator Medals

Among the wealth of interesting objects from the Holy Roman Empire offered by auction house Künker in its Berlin Auction on 30 January 2020, you can find a small series of so-called Salvator medals. Even though they are called medals, they actually should be classified as coins.

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07.01.2020

Rarities for the World Money Fair

On the occasion of the World Money Fair, auction house Künker offers outstanding rarities from all over the world. Coins from the German States, the Holy Roman Empire and France are especially well represented. The highlight is the Prof Dr Rudolf Wiechert Collection o. a. featuring rarities from Brandenburg-Prussia.

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04.12.2019

A Life’s Work of Royal Glory, Immortalized on Metal and Paper

Auction house Künker offers in its upcoming eLive Auction 58 precious and useful pieces of numismatic literature. The offer includes two editions of the most important work on the medals of the Sun King.

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11.10.2019

The hunting pleasures of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, went down in history as the Hunting Landgrave [“Jagdlandgraf” in German]. Coins depicting his love of the chase are being auctioned off at Künker’s Auction 327 on 9 October 2019.Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, went down in history as the Hunting Landgrave [“Jagdlandgraf” in German]. Coins depicting his love of the chase are being auctioned off at Künker’s Auction 327 on 9 October 2019.

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02.10.2019

A Medal Made by Dürer as the Official Gift of the City of Nuremberg for Charles V

On 9 October 2019, auction house Künker will be auctioning an object of major art-historical importance: The very Albrecht Dürer himself had been commissioned by the Nuremberg City Council to create the dies for medals that were to be officially handed to Charles V during his entry into the city in 1521.

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13.09.2019

Empire

On 7 October 2019, auction house Künker will be auctioning a necklace and bracelet made from ancient coins, said to have been commissioned by the great general Napoleon Bonaparte for his younger sister Pauline. That would make sense: In Napoleon’s time, people loved anything that was reminiscent of antiquity.

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13.06.2019

Venice, the Doges and the House of Mocenigo

The cover coin of the Künker catalog for auction 324 is a Venetian off-metal strike in gold weighing 12 zecchini of doge Alvise IV Mocenigo. He was the seventh and last doge of the Mocenigo family. Through the extensive Venice collection, which will be auctioned at Künker in June 2019, we will recount why the Mocenigo family produced so many doges.

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31.05.2019

A long bridge for the benefit of all

On 27 September, 2012, the mayor of Berlin inaugurated the new Rathaus Bridge. It is already the sixth bridge in this historic location. An extremely rare gold medal commemorates the first stone bridge that was erected at the same place. On 27 June, 2019, the item is auctioned off at Künker in Osnabrück.

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24.05.2019

What is a Swede doing in Poland?

On June 26, 2019, an extensive collection of Polish rarities will be auctioned at the Künker auction 323. Among them are coins of Sigismund III, who was King of Sweden and Poland simultaneously. We recount how a Swedish prince came to rule over the Poles.

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22.03.2019

Alchemical Gold Coin Back in Weimar

In an official celebration, Ulrich Künker returned an unpublished specimen of the golden so-called “Alchemistentaler” to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The coin had been stolen in 1945. The auction house Künker bore all costs incurred in the restitution of the rare piece.

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08.03.2019

The Fidelity of the Locrians

Künker piece used as an illustration of the standard reference work of Greek numismatics

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28.02.2019

The first coronation of a German Emperor in Frankfurt

The coronation of Maximilian II in Frankfurt set the tone for a period of religious peace in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation: The pragmatic politician was willing to break new ground, including for his own coronation.

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28.02.2019

Making the case for the gold standard: The coins of Josef Wild

By means of hyperinflation, the German government transferred the cost of World War I onto its citizens. Josef Wild, a simple goldsmith from Nuremberg, tried to do something about it. He died in prison as a counterfeiter of coins

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28.02.2019

Making the case for the gold standard: The coins of Josef Wild

By means of hyperinflation, the German government transferred the cost of World War I onto its citizens. Josef Wild, a simple goldsmith from Nuremberg, tried to do something about it. He died in prison as a counterfeiter of coins

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22.02.2019

The first war between Jews and Romans

Thanks to Flavius Josephus, we know a lot about the Jewish-Roman War. And thanks to the coins, we know how it was perceived by the Romans. On the example of coins from the upcoming Künker antiques auction 318, we recount what happened back then, and why it became such an important topic in Flavian coinage.

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25.01.2019

A mint for Australia

Gold plays a key role in Australia. It helped the former penal colony to become a serious country. Thus, a pattern for the first Australian sovereign, which will be auctioned off by Künker on January 31, 2019, is not only a numismatic highlight, but also a high-level testimony to Australian history.

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18.01.2019

Adolf of Schwarzenberg – The Liberator of Raab

On March 29, 1598, Adolf of Schwarzenberg reconquered the fortress of Raab, taking it back from the Turks. The Emperor was thankful: He elevated the victorious military to Imperial Count and thus made the House of Schwarzenberg an important factor in the Habsburg Empire.

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14.06.2018

Exceptional collection of patterns and mint errors from the Federal Republic of Germany

It is a collection that every German museum could be proud of, the collection of patterns and mint errors of the Federal Republic of Germany that Künker offers in auction 309. Following we present to you some of the rarest patterns and mint errors of Germany which can be found in the collection.

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08.06.2018

The sad fate of Wilhelmine Amalia

Recte et constanter – uprightly and firmly, this is the motto under which the young empress Wilhelmine Amalia had taken up the reign. And uprightly and firmly did she act after her husband’s death as well. That is what is presented on an impressive medal offered at the upcoming auction sale 308 of the Osnabrück auction house Künker.

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01.06.2018

When Oxford was the capital of England...

For a few years during the English civil war, Oxford acted as royal capitol. This article presents an extremely fine "triple unit" of Charles I from this period in time, which will be put to auction in the upcoming Künker auction on June 21st, 2018.

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25.05.2018

Alexander Farnese – The man who almost kept the Netherlands in Spanish governance

When talking about the Eighty Years' War, one usually encounters names such as Egmont, the Duke of Alba and the Prince of Orange. Alexander Farnese, however, who almost preserved Spanish rule over the Netherlands, is less known. We are telling his story by means of coins of the Geneart collection which will be auctioned off at Künker on June 18th, 2018.  

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09.05.2018

Three important special collections in Künker's summer auctions

Four catalogues present the material of the Künker summer auctions from June 18-21, 2018. Among others, the auction will entail the Genaert collection with coins from the Spanish Netherlands, the Popken collection with coins from the House of Welf and the Gunther Wiegrebe collection with coins and medals from Lippe.

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25.02.2017

Bonnie Prince Charles 

An impressive gold medal that is being put to auction on 16 March 2017 with Künker conveys the official version of a story, we are more likely to know from folk songs, novels and the cinema: On 16 April 1746, Bonnie Prince Charles was defeated in the Battle of Culloden. An impressive gold medal that is being put to auction on 16 March 2017 with Künker conveys the official version of a story, we are more likely to know from folk songs, novels and the cinema: On 16 April 1746, Bonnie Prince Charles was defeated in the Battle of Culloden. 

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18.02.2017

The Turks at the gates of Vienna

Künker Auction 289 will offer the first part of the Ottoman Collection on March 14, 2017. This collection bespeaks the sometimes difficult relations between the Western World and the Ottomans. We are singling out one chapter: The quarrel about the legacy of Louis of Hungary and the first Siege of Vienna. 

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09.02.2017

Preview: More than 6,000 lots with an estimate of 7.1 million euros in Künker’s Spring Auctions

On March 13-17, 2017 Künker will hold its Spring Auctions. The entire numismatic spectrum will be covered. Furthermore, several specialized collections will be auctioned off. The collectors of medals in particular will find something of interest. 

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09.02.2017

Globalisation in Roman times: Trade with India

In the upcoming auction of Künker on 13 March 2017, several interesting aurei are going to be put to auction. They are Indian imitations of Roman gold coins, which bespeak the close trade relations between Rome and the Indian subcontinent. 

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21.01.2017

The lion from the north - triumphator in life as well as in death

On the occasion of Künker Auction 286 "Coins from the Swedish Possessions - The Ottar Ertzeid Collection", we present you an issue from 2014. On March 13, sale no. 247 of auction house Künker offered the Baums Collection featuring historical medals. The connoisseur discovered many historically interesting, artistically enchanting medals, like a piece that was created by Sebastian Dadler on the occasion of the funeral of Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden at Riddarholm Church. The upcoming auction 286 contains a 4 ducat piece with was strucked according the Sebastian Dadlers's artwork. 

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21.01.2017

The lion from the north - triumphator in life as well as in death

On the occasion of Künker Auction 286 "Coins from the Swedish Possessions - The Ottar Ertzeid Collection", we present you an issue from 2014. On March 13, sale no. 247 of auction house Künker offered the Baums Collection featuring historical medals. The connoisseur discovered many historically interesting, artistically enchanting medals, like a piece that was created by Sebastian Dadler on the occasion of the funeral of Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden at Riddarholm Church. The upcoming auction 286 contains a 4 ducat piece with was strucked according the Sebastian Dadlers's artwork. 

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20.01.2017

The Purim Festival of the Protestants

In its Berlin Auction 286, the auction house Künker auctions off the Ottar Ertzeid Collection with coins from the Swedish Territories. The offer includes a series of Purim talers. In this article, we address the question why the Protestants of Erfurt took a Jewish festival, of all events, to date their coins.

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14.01.2017

Bohemia and the House of Habsburg – a conflict-laden relationship

Habsburg coins having been minted in the Prague Mint is something we very much take for granted. In its Auction 285, to be held on 2 February 2017, the auction house Künker offers an entire series of these. But it was anything but ordained by God that Bohemia became subject to the rule of the House of Habsburg. 

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14.01.2017

The Hero of the Second War of American Independence

As part of its Berlin Auction 285, the auction house Künker offers a Congressional Gold Medal. This is no medal like any other, but the one President Madison handed personally to Alexander Macomb, the Hero of Plattsburgh. We are telling his story.

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13.12.2016

Auction PreView: Künker offers the Ottar Ertzeid Collection with Coins from the Swedish Possessions

On the occasion of its Berlin Auction, Künker presents three auction catalogs: Catalog 285 with exquisite German and world coins, Catalog 286 with the Ottar Ertzeid Collection featuring coins from the Swedish Possessions, and Catalog 287 with the Toni Barth Collection with German coins since 1871.

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15.10.2016

Napoleon tames the Saxon Steed

Napoleon was a master in the art of humiliation. Please find here a characteristic example of his mastership: The French Victoria is taming the Saxon Steed on a medal made from Saxon silver. The medal stems from the estate of the Bonaparte family and will be sold as part of the Preussag sale.

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06.10.2016

Part 2 of the Preussag Collection will be auctioned off in London

On 1 November 2016 the second part of the Preussag collection will be auctioned off by London Coin Galleries in cooperation with Künker in Osnabrück. The material comprises 772 lots of mining coins, estimated at 630,000 GBP altogether.

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06.10.2016

The Preussag Collection

The one-time “Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten- Aktiengesellschaft”, later known as Preussag AG and today as TUI AG, was founded by the Prussian government in 1923 and united, as a public enterprise, the mining and metallurgical operations in the possession of the Prussian state (with the exception of the Ruhr district’s coal fields). Following the annexation of the Kingdom of Hannover in 1866 by the Kingdom of Prussia, the majority of the mining and metallurgical works in the mountainous Harz region which had been operated under the centuries-old Guelph mining tradition became possessions of the Prussian state.

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17.09.2016

Colossus Mercurio – or: Hamburg and the Privilege of the Elbe

The city of Hamburg had a problem. All ships that intended to use its port and, in order to do so, went up the Elbe River, passed territories the Danish king made a claim to. He was not only King of Denmark but, being Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, also strongest power in the Lower Saxon Circle. 

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17.09.2016

Philip II of Pomerania and his coin dealer Philipp Hainhofer

Around 1600, coin collecting was “the” leisure activity of the intellectual elite. The emperor himself was an avid collector. He was imitated by many noblemen among them Philip II of Pomerania, who put together a great art collection in cooperation with Philipp Hainhofer.

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02.09.2016

The age of alchemy

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5

Don’t think only confirmed fools believed in the wonders of alchemy! On the contrary. The smartest men of the early modern period kept themselves busy with the queen of the sciences, the doctrines of separating and combining, of cleaning and mixing, of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of eternal life.

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01.09.2016

Hannelore Scheiner – Portrait of a Passionate Coin Collector

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27.08.2016

Assassins of Caesar

Coins featuring the portrait of Brutus are extremely rare. Coin portraits of Cassius, even more so. Thus far, there is only one known coin type which probably depicts the staunch Republican. In the forthcoming Künker Fall Auction 280, you can come face to face with both assassins of Caesar.

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11.05.2016

The die cutting czarina

“Made by Maria” can be read in Russian on the reverse of a medal, which will be auctioned off on June 21st, 2016 at Künker. It is remarkable, that a woman created these dies, and the story gets even more interesting, knowing that this die cutter was a Russian czarina.

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07.03.2016

Sextus Pompey: Ruler of Sicily

No other period of the Roman Republic generated more innovative imagery than the civil war between Octavian, Marc Anthony and Sextus Pompey. During the upcoming Künker Fall Auctions of 2016 a splendid testimony to this thesis will be auctioned off. Sextus Pompey created an aureus referring to his father, Pompey the Great and his brother, Gnaeus Pompeius. 

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29.02.2016

Gold from Goldkronach

For centuries the mines of Goldkronach were extremely profitable. But then their abundance ebbed away. The Bavarian Kings were not willing to accept that and planned huge investments. A coin will tell you, what happened then.

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26.01.2016

German cutting edge technology in the Chinese Empire

On February 6th, 2016, 42 Chinese coin dies and 36 punches from the holdings of Otto Beh’s company will be handed over to the state coin cabinet of Saxony-Anhalt. They attest to an exciting chapter of German history of technology.

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15.01.2016

The Battle of Poltava

On February 4th, 2016, Auction House Künker will offer a gold medal, commemorating, what probably is, the most important military success of Peter the Great: his victory at the Battle of Poltava, which changed the course of the Great Nordic War.

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15.01.2016

Union et Force: A coin of the French Republic, minted under Napoleon

On February 4th, 2016, Künker will offer a French 5 franc gold pattern of year 10 for sale. The type can be traced back to the French Directory and it was only changed when Napoleon was certain of his power.

 

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07.01.2016

George Gustav of Pfalz-Veldenz

On February 4th, 2016, Künker Auction House, during its Berlin auction, will offer an extensive series of pre-1871 German rarities. Among them, there will be an extremely rare taler of the count of Veldenz.

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12.11.2015

11- ый аукцион в Берлине 4 февраля 2016 в Estrel Convention Center

Аукцион в Берлине 2016

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09.10.2015

The Julius löser

The oldest löser date back to the year 1574. They are fascinating specimens. Responsible for the coinage is Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1568-1589). He was an exceptional figure in the 16th century. Suffering from a walking disability and once destined to become a priest, he took over his father’s territory due to the death of his older brother.

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09.10.2015

Slave trade, gold, and sugar: The Elector of Brandenburg as entrepreneur

In cooperation with London Coin Galleries, auction house Künker presents a part of the former Preussag collection at its auction on 30 October 2015. Some of the objects provide unique insights into how noble metals were mined and traded. A medal, minted on behalf of the great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg himself, remembers the means that were devised to fuel the realm’s economy. The regent of Prussia ordered the founding of a trading colony for the purpose of acquiring slaves, ivory, and gold.

 

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14.09.2015

Blood money

Blodsklippingar or blood klippe is the Swedish numismatic term for coins that tell the story of one of the darkest periods of Swedish history: the drama of fraternal feud and a revolt, of great love and courageous women, of insanity, passion and lust for power – simply put, topics, numismatics is normally about.

 

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14.09.2015

The royal wedding of Kulmbach

To regard coins of the early modern period merely as currency completely overlooks an important fact: their role as courtly representations of the renaissance ruler.

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24.07.2015

петицию о сохранении частного коллекционирования

как Вы, вероятно, узнали из последних сообщений в СМИ, государственный министр культуры и СМИ Моника Грюттерс готовит изменение к закону о защите культурных ценностей. Этот проект закона является очень спорным, не только из-за своего содержания, но также по причине того, что дебаты, сопровождавшие процесс его разработки, велись односторонне. Хотя интересы торговых фирм и коллекционеров были услышаны, их аргументы до сих пор не учтены в данном законопроекте. 

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29.05.2015

Prussian Spirit in Tsarist Russia

Peter III had ruled Russia for just six months. For this reason virtually all of his coins are rare. Künker will offer a very rare 10 rouble piece of that ruler in his sale 264 on June 25. It depicts Peter Prussian-style.

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29.05.2015

Pattern of 5 DM “Germanisches Museum”

As part of Auction 292, Lot 8133 contains a die of the reverse pattern of the first commemorative coin of the Federal Republic of Germany “Germanic Museum”. On the occasion of Auction 264, conducted on June 25, 2015, we did some research on the history of this pattern of which we offered a specimen at that auction. 

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29.05.2015

Hamburg Bankportugalöser

To keep and protect things after they are acquired is no less a virtue than to acquire them in various ways

On June 24, 2015, Künker auctions a small series of portugalöser from the city of Hamburg. They are strongly associated with both the fight of a Hanseatic city against currency manipulations and the founding of the first Giro bank in Germany.

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25.02.2015

How Malta came under the British Flag

On Thursday, March 12, 2015, the auction house Künker auctions off an unusually rare testimony of the Maltese history. The small silver ingot in the weight of 30 tari from 1800 is the last currency produced on Malta. 

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23.02.2015

The Punic Goddess

On Friday, March 13, 2015, Künker auctions off a Siculo-Punic coin with an enigmatic depiction: on the obverse we see a beautiful woman with a Phrygian cap. Is it Dido? Is it Tanit? Or is it perhaps a completely different goddess.

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30.01.2015

Results of our Berlin Auction 2015

One highlight of the World Money Fair, which opens its doors in our capital today, ended yesterday evening: our 10th Berlin Auction provided an array of exciting numismatic moments. The yields from the individual items are truly impressive. 

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12.01.2015

The Polish Adventure of Augustus the Strong

In 1694 Frederick Augustus I ascended the throne as Elector of Saxony, when his brother Johann Georg IV died surprisingly after reigning for only three years. Augustus the Strong, as he liked to call himself, was well educated for the tasks which awaited him. He had benefited from outstanding teachers, had traveled the world for three years with his eyes wide open, and had even proven himself as a military commander.

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07.01.2015

Great Britain’s 5 Guineas

Anyone who, during the 60s decade of the previous century, took part in one of the larger English horse auctions may have been surprised to learn that calculations there were still made in guineas, in spite of the fact that the last British guinea had been minted in1813. Nonetheless this denomination stood, like no other, for the aristocratic attitude towards life in Great Britain as the nation grew into its role as administrator of a worldwide empire.

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07.01.2015

The first Gold Coins in the United States

Carolina, Georgia, California – A great many people were lured by the prospect of easy riches in the gold fields to set out for the unknown. Consequently, the Gold Rush has become one of the seminal myths of the United States of America. In its Berlin auction Künker offers a range of numismatic testimony to this eventful era.

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11.10.2014

Результаты осенних аукционах

Another exciting auction-week came to an end on Friday evening with our sale of ancient coins. With an over all hammer price of 11.4 Mio € the Künker Fall Auction 2014 went nearly 50 % over the estimated price (7.9 Mio €).

We are very grateful for over 3.200 bidders that took part in the auction, of whom over 400 were present in the auction room. Because of this incredible participation, the collection of English coins

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