Online Coin Auction #48

GERMANY. Magnificent and original collection made up of 81 porcelain or terracotta coins and medals. Most of the collection is made up of coins from the first quarter of the 20th century, mainly 1921, of different values, although we will also find medals and pieces minted in later decades as commemorative purposes. High level of conservation in general. ESSENTIAL TO EXAMINE.

GERMAN PORCELAIN COINS

The currency of necessity throughout our contemporary history is a constant. Intimately linked to periods of economic, political or social instability, but especially in the post-war period, they fulfill an essential task for the maintenance of the battered economies of the moment. There are many examples, both in coins and bills. However, we will make our stop here in the so-called Notgelds that, although with the passage of time its use has become widespread for all types of currency and emergency banknotes, if we analyze it from a more strict point of view we would have to focus exclusively on the produced by German institutions between 1914 and 1923.

We are talking, then, of a very specific period that includes World War I and its postwar period, being the hyperinflation typical of this period the one that forces its coinage in a series of materials of little nobility, some widely used and known as aluminum or aluminum. brass but we also find others, perhaps surprising, such as porcelain. The Weimar Republic had to face numerous payments and war indemnities, and this caused the minting of huge amounts of money that, obviously, ended up being worth hardly anything.

Made of fine porcelain or brown stoneware, values ranging from 10 pfennig to 20 marks were issued and despite their popularity they were soon discontinued due to their intrinsic weakness, since they were coins that were easily damaged when not broken. The Saxon city of Meissen, internationally famous for the production of ceramics since the beginning of the 18th century, was the main one in charge of producing this type of coin for the different German municipalities that decided to mint these peculiar pieces.


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CHINA AND TIBET.

Trying to make a compendium, any summary whatever, of a country of almost 10 million square meters that is home to 1.4 billion inhabitants, which borders 14 sovereign states and a millenary culture seems like an arduous and complicated task. From a numismatic point of view, it is not easy, either, to cover a collection like the one we present in this auction, especially if we take into account that this collection is the result of the effort of a lifetime of collecting by a single transferor.

From the era of the Han dynasty (206 BC - 221 AD) which consolidated China as a political-administrative unit and promoted the wu zhu as the predominant circulating system until the Song dynasty with which a period considered to be of splendor that includes between Its main characteristics being the first government in the world to use paper money, going through the Tang, at the beginning of the 7th century AD, the representation of money from medieval China is extensive, highlighting a wide selection of the most used types throughout of all Chinese numismatics: Cash. This type of currency, usually copper, was used, not only by China but also by other Southeast Asian countries, between the 2nd century BC and the 20th century AD, preserving one of its main hallmarks: the central square hole. that allowed the coins to be tied together by string to create higher values since they were generally coins of little value.

After the Middle Ages and the Ming Dynasty, including its last and turbulent years of peasant rebellions, it is the Qing Dynasty that takes the lead in the collection. Not in vain, this line is perpetuated in the power of the country from 1644 to 1912. After them the interference of the West and various wars lead us to the beginning of a period of Republic until 1949 and a subsequent People's Republic. The “Fatman dollars”, minted with the purpose of imposing a certain order in the face of the chaotic situation of the Chinese monetary system at the beginning of the 20th century, together with trade dollars or dragon dollars are other good examples of the type of pieces that we can find in this compendium.

It goes without saying that in a collection of this magnitude, both quantitative and chronological, we will find a large number of mints, prefectures and provinces represented, as well as values, module and materials, also highlighting the inclusion of medals and amulets.
Special mention deserves one of the albums dedicated exclusively to Tibet currency, composed of 245 coins from the 19th and 20th centuries (stages of independent Tibet and Tibet under Chinese rule) where modules such as Tangka, Sho, Rupee and Srang, among others will undoubtedly call the attention of any collector worth his salt.

Important note: this lot includes both original coins and contemporary and / or modern reproductions. Different states of conservation throughout the collection. ESSENTIAL TO EXAMINE. This lot cannot be returned and is sold "as is".
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Magnificent collection made up of 826 world coins with a very wide representation of countries and islands from the 5 continents and standing out for the existence of a voluminous number of pieces in silver. Within the collection are the coins referring to the Commonwealth where we can find examples of Turks and Caicos, South Georgia, Sandwich, Falkland, Alderney, Isle of Man, Cook Islands, Santa Elena, Solomon ... etc. Although the bulk of the collection focuses on the 20th century, it also includes a good number of coins from the 18th and 19th centuries from countries such as Brazil, Bolivia, Portugal (Azores), Canada or Venezuela, among others. Special mention, too, to the presence of a commemorative coin from geographic areas as diverse as Nepal, the Dutch Colonies, Gibraltar or North Korea. The present theme is very extensive, ranging from coins with sports or Olympic themes, to fauna through nature and architecture. The collection, in general, presents a very high state of conservation, being this the result of the collecting work of a single transferor and where we hardly find any repeated pieces. ESSENTIAL TO EXAMINE.
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