Gold: $2,813.98 $38.30

Silver: $31.51 $0.78

Platinum: $961.76 $4.51

Palladium: $999.36 $18.69

Intense Bidding Delivers Outstanding Results at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries 2025 NYINC Auction

Numerous record-breaking results brought the price realized totals to $12,398,470.

by Stacks Bowers Galleries | Published on January 31, 2025

Lots 32275, 31186, and 31173 pictured.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries, in its role as an official auctioneer of the New York International Numismatic Convention, always hosts one of the year’s most hotly anticipated auction events at the January NYINC. This year’s auction was no exception, with numerous record-breaking results that brought the price realized totals across the ancient coins, world coins, and world currency categories to $12,398,470. (All prices include the buyer’s premium.)

Claiming the position of top-selling lot was the colossal 1637 Austrian 20 Ducats of Ferdinand II. Very rare, exceptionally beautiful, and graded MS-64+, strong bidding brought this lot to $360,000. Another Central European gold rarity, the 1639 Hungarian 10 Ducats, took second place at $192,000. The stunningly rare 1801 Pattern Ruble Novodel of Russian emperor Alexander I sold for $96,000, while a very special Salzburg 10 Ducat Klippe from 1668 brought $90,000, reinforcing the strength of European coinage at the NYINC sale.

The firm’s offerings of Latin American coins and countermarks at their NYINC sales have earned a reputation for quality, which was amplified this year with several high-end rarities. The 1916 Mexican 60 Pesos from Oaxaca, consistently one of the most desired and famous issues of the vast Mexican Revolution series, realized $66,000, comfortably exceeding its estimate. One of the most intriguing countermarks was an exceptionally rare bifacial Costa Rican 4 Reales countermark on a Bolivian host that inspired a bidding war resulting in an impressive $52,800 realization. A magnificent Peruvian gold medal featuring Simon Bolivar performed admirably achieving $45,600. The leader among the colonial issues was a Mexican Cob 8 Escudos dated 1715, pedigreed to the famous 1715 Plate Fleet shipwreck, which landed at $45,600 after competitive bidding.

The annual NYINC auction is Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ top venue for ancient coins, and this year’s robust selection was anchored by the S.P. Rutherford Collection. The collection’s top lot, a massive Ptolemaic silver Pentakaidekadrachm of Berenike II, achieved $38,400, while another oversized rarity, a Macedonian Dodekadrachm issued by the Derrones, crushed its estimate when it brought $26,400. Other standouts include an always-popular Syracuse Dekadrachm that realized $19,800 and a gorgeous Mint State Year 2 Jewish War Shekel that sold for $18,000.

The Richard Margolis Collection of exceptional French rarities had its own dedicated session which saw intense competition in the auction room. The clear leader was a wonderful Proof Napoleon 40 Francs in MS-65 that climbed to $144,000. Not far behind, another Proof striking of Napoleon, this one a 5 Francs brought $102,000, well exceeding its presale estimate. The immensely rare Specimen 20 Francs of Louis XVIII soared to $66,000.

As with Latin American coins, the NYINC has proven to be Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ premier venue for Latin American paper money. Venezuelan banknotes were especially well-represented, with an incredible 1811 8 Pesos from the early days of the republic leading the results at $60,000. Russian notes had a strong showing, with rare offerings such as a 3 Rubles from South Russia and a 1940 25 Aksha from Tannu Tuva, each of which sold for $31,200. A beautiful high-grade Egyptian 50 Piastres of 1899 was the second-highest selling lot among the paper money offerings realizing $38,400.

The physical cryptocurrency sale was led by a loaded 0.5 Bitcoin of the popular Casascius type that sold for $58,800. The colorful “poker chip” type comprised most of the other top-selling lots in the session, with a loaded 2016 0.1 Bitcoin reaching $16,800.

All results from the January 2025 NYINC Auction are available at StacksBowers.com. These results set up Stack’s Bowers Galleries for another year of growth and market expansion. The firm now looks ahead to its busy 2025 calendar, beginning with the February Collectors Choice Online Auction, followed in March by Part II of the landmark L. E. Bruun Collection and The Zurich Sale, taking place in Zurich, Switzerland. Shortly after comes the April 2025 Hong Kong Auction, the firm’s premier venue for high-end Asian numismatics. To consign your ancient coins, world coins, and world paper money to an upcoming Stack’s Bowers Galleries event, visit StacksBowers.com, call 800-458-4646, or email Consign@StacksBowers.com.

Other notable lots from the Stack’s Bowers Galleries New York International Numismatic Convention Auction:

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Stack's Bowers Galleries conducts live, Internet and specialized auctions of rare U.S. and world coins and currency and ancient coins, as well as direct sales through retail and wholesale channels. The company's 80-year legacy includes the cataloging and sale of many of the most valuable United States coin and currency collections to ever cross an auction block — The D. Brent Pogue Collection, The John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Collection, The Joel R. Anderson Collection, The Norweb Collection, The Cardinal Collection and The Battle Born Collection — to name just a few. World coin and currency collections include The Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection of World Gold Coins, The Kroisos Collection, The Alicia and Sidney Belzberg Collection, The Wa She Wong Collection, The Guia Collection, The Thos. H. Law Collection, and The Robert O. Ebert Collection.

Topping off this amazing numismatic history is the inclusion of the world record for the highest price ever realized at auction for a rare coin, the 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar graded Specimen-66 (PCGS) that realized over $10 million, part of their sale of the famed Cardinal Collection. The company is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, with offices in New York, Wolfeboro, Hong Kong, and Paris. Stack's Bowers Galleries is an Official Auctioneer for several important numismatic conventions, including American Numismatic Association events, the New York International Numismatic Convention, the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Spring, Summer and Winter Expos, and its April and August Hong Kong Auctions.