Stacks Bowers and Ponterio conducted its April 2012 Hong Kong sale last week at the Mira Hotel in Kowloon. Drawing huge crowds of bidders, the four day auction event realized an impressive total of $10,546,612. In three catalogs, the sale covered everything from Chinese coins and provincial issues to modern Chinese coins and paper money. The sale spotlighted important collections such as the Wa She Wong Collection, Part III, the Frank Robinson Collection, Part II, the Dr. John Abner Snell Collection, Duplicates from the American Numismatic Society Museum Collection, the Neil Nelson Collection and more.
Stacks Bowers and Ponterio will present an exceptional selection of more than 3,100 lots of Chinese and East Asian coins and banknotes at The Mira Hong Kong, April 1-4, 2012, HKT. The four-day auction event is estimated to realize more than $10 million USD and offers three catalogs spotlighting a multitude of collections and highlights including the Wa She Wong Collection, Part III, the Frank Robinson Collection, Part II, the Dr. John Abner Snell Collection, Duplicates from the American Numismatic Society Museum Collection, and several others. Interested bidders are invited to join the live auction at The Mira in Kowloon, Hong Kong, or to bid online at StacksBowers.com.
Stacks Bowers Galleries conducted its Official Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo March 19-27, 2012. The impressive sale presented 6,554 U.S. coin, currency and exonumia lots and realized a total of $16,407,956.
As most of you are probably aware, the past year has been quite an exciting one for Stacks Bowers Galleries, our team and our valued clients. The creation of the company has allowed us to offer you many new and improved opportunities for buying and selling exceptional U.S. and World coins and paper currency, such as the Stacks Bowers Galleries Official Auctions of the ANA Worlds Fair of Money and ANA/PNG Pre-show, multiple auctions in Hong Kong, as well as our continued tenure as the Official Auctioneer of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Baltimore Expos three times a year.
Stacks Bowers Galleries announced today that John Kraljevich, an independent numismatist and researcher, has signed an exclusive contract for numismatic cataloging services with the firm. Kraljevich, a resident of New York City, cataloged for predecessor firms Bowers and Merena Galleries (2000-2003), American Numismatic Rarities (2003-2006), and Stacks (2006-2007), before opening his own firm in August 2007.
Stacks Bowers Galleries announces that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4) to conduct an annual auction of Colonial coinage and related material. The inaugural joint auction will take place during the Stacks Bowers Galleries Official Auction of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Expo in Baltimore November 12-18, 2012. At this show, C4 will have its annual convention. Stacks Bowers is inviting consignments of Colonial coinage and related material such as Colonial currency as well as other U.S. coins and currency from now until September 24, 2012, and interested consignors are asked to call 800.458.4646 to discuss opportunities.