Stater (7, 93g), Gold, 120-63 BC, Mithradates VI. Eupator. Av: head to the right. Rev: wreath, therein a deer with bowed main left, before that crescent with star, behind year monogram, over it and beneath characters, very fine. Rare!
Stater (7,93g), Gold, 120-63 v. Chr., Mithradates VI. Eupator. Av: Kopf nach rechts. Rev: Kranz, darin ein Hirsch mit gesenktem Haupt nach links, davor Mondsichel mit Stern, dahinter Jahresmonogramm,...
Public Stamps (Briefmarken) Auction #148
By: Dr. Reinhard Fischer
Dr. Reinhard Fischer Public Stamps (Briefmarken) Auction #148
A selection from the 7,700 lots contained in our 149th auction with numerous specialities and many highlights!
German states: an extensive supply with – among others – the contents of the broken up <<FÜRSTENRIED>> collection – almost exclusively containing extremely fine and superb quality items. Nearly all of them have current assessments; highlights include a Hamburg Mi.-Nr. 7 and 18, Sachsen 1a, Helgoland 8b to name only a few; the auction also contains interesting cover applications, pre-philatistic covers, cancelled lots and sought-after standard issues.
German empire: valuable supply with many colours, types, varieties and specialities, including many breast plate issues, stamp booklets and se-tenants, along with an interesting selection of Zeppelin covers.
German colonies / post offices abroad: extensive supply with numerous types, covers, specialities and cancellations, very extensive supply of the popular mnh issues.
Occupation World War I/Plebiscites/Gdansk/Memel/Saar: wide-ranging supply, including interesting items from the Saargebiet with numerous varieties and specialities, Memel is represented with types and many better values.
World War II/field post: extensive supply with many rarities and sought-after standard issues. One special feature is the content of a dissolved collection containing an outstanding field post collection with a large number of rare covers, such as a Tunis parcel stamp (Päckchenmarke) on the parcel address or the U-boat Hela stamp on a cover, Sarny and North Ukraine commercial letters are also on offer. Of equal interest are the 1st section of the special <<BELGRAD>> collection – covers from the German Occupation WW II in Serbia, about 200 positions from the 1st and 2nd issues are being offered, the following issues will be up for auction in May 2016, comprising more than 500 lots during the 150th auction. Particularly eye-catching: rare blocks from Pleskau and an nmh Montenegro No. 19.
Germany after 1945: select supply with numerous specialities, plate flaw variations, sought-after standard issues, bugle set (Posthornsatz) as mnh upper edge set, etc....
Europe: extensive and substantial supply, especially from the areas of Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein.
A wide variety of collections on offer with over 1,500 positions, ranging from covers in an envelope to estate collections encompassing several boxes – there is in essence something for every budget. These include the contents of several collections that have been dissolved, and which will be sold to start off the collections auction, divided by country and labeled “Bestandsauflösung”, ie. inventory dissolution.
Numismatics
Select supply with approx. 650 lots, including investment gold, collectors’ coins from antiquity to modern times, as well as medallions.
Lot #38 - Pontus
Lot #39 - Pontus
Stater (8, 29g), 120-63 BC, Mithradates VI., embossed in the names of the Lysimachos, Kallatis. Av: head to the right. Rev: throning Athena with Nike left, before that and behind characters, beneath trident. Comp. SNG stockholm 838, minimal plaque, very fine to extremly fine.
Stater (8,29g), 120-63 v. Chr., Mithradates VI., geprägt im Namen des Lysimachos, Kallatis. Av: Kopf nach rechts. Rev: Thronende Athena mit Nike nach links,...
Dr. R. Fischer
Dr. R. Fischer - Sechs mal im Jahr veranstalten wir in der philatelistischen Welt vielbeachtete Briefmarken-Auktionen, in denen wir bevorzugt hochwertige unberührte Sammlungen aus Privathand... Read More