Hess Divo Auction Features NGC Certified Austrian Coin Expected to Sell for Six Figures
Mid-December sale includes this gold rarity from the extraordinary Paramount Collection.
A future Hess Divo sale will feature an Austrian coin dating back centuries. It has been certified by Numismatic Guaranty Company® (NGC®) and is a part of the Paramount Collection. Auction 341 has already begun to take bids for the sale, which is scheduled for December 13, 2023.
The top lot in the auction is an Austrian (1662-65) 20 Ducats graded NGC MS 61 (lot 193) with a starting price of 250,000 CHF (about $280,000). The coin depicts the Archduke of Further Austria, Sigismund Francis, the last member of the younger Tyrolean line of the Habsburg dynasty. After just two and a half years in power, he died in 1665 at the age of 34. The auction company claims that there are just two known extant copies of this coin.
Other NGC-certified coins in this auction include:
- a France 1855 Gold Paris Universal Expo Medal graded NGC MS 65 (lot 156) with a starting price of 75,000 CHF (about $84,000)
- an Austria 1656 Ortenburg 10 Ducats graded NGC MS 63 and pedigreed to the Paramount Collection (lot 203) with a starting price of 50,000 CHF (about $56,000)
- an Austria 1656 Ortenburg 5 Ducats graded NGC MS 61 (lot 204) with a starting price of 50,000 CHF (about $56,000)
- a Germany 1661 Munster 6 Ducats graded NGC MS 62 (lot 207) with a starting price of 50,000 CHF (about $56,000)
- a Greece 1876A 50 Drachmai graded NGC MS 60 (lot 157) with a starting price of 25,000 CHF (about $28,000)
Starting prices are provided by Hess Divo. All prices are in USD.
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