World coins and medals with a focus on the Holy Roman Empire and the German states will be called out on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.
Stemming from the collection of a history enthusiast (German: ‘Geschichtsfreund’), 110 coins constitute this section’s highlight. They are all of outstanding quality and have been collected according to an extraordinary principle. In the 1970s, the collector acquired by chance the work of the Leipzig-based merchant Georg Heinrich Sander (1716-1754). Its title translates as ‘Collection of rare and peculiar gold and silver coins, described historically and critically’. The history enthusiast began to reconstruct this long lost collection, and succeeded in re-assembling 110 of the 153 coin types Sander described. Among them such rarities as the extremely rare 1520 double taler from the County of Schlick or the likewise extremely rare 1663 reichstaler from Jülich-Berg.
