Collectors and investors will have the opportunity to acquire Marie Therese coronation medals and tokens at auction. The auction will also include a unique gold medal of Maria Theresa from 1741, the only example of which has ever been on the market. The auction will also include more than 2,000-year-old Celtic coins and more than 300 examples of rare banknotes. The author of one of them is the world-famous painter and graphic artist Alfons Mucha.
The coronation medals and tokens were created on the occasion of the coronation of Maria Theresa as Queen of Hungary in Bratislava on 25 June 1741. "The order for the coronation medals and tokens for the coronation landed on the desk of the chief Viennese engraver, Antonio Maria de Gennaro, just two and a half months before the actual act," says about the origins of rare collector's pieces Elisha Macho, co-founder of the auction house Macho & Chlapovič. The auction will offer collectors a gold coronation medal weighing 15 ducats with a starting price of EUR 60,000 and two types of coronation tokens. "A large token weighing 1 and ¼ ducats and a small one weighing ¾ ducats will be auctioned to collectors with a starting price of €4,000 each, " said Macho, adding that the gold medal of Maria Theresa from 1741 is the only example that has appeared on the market.
Another item that collectors will be able to acquire at the October auction is an extremely rare 1506 six-double-double of Vladislav II. Jagiellonian coin with a starting price of €60,000. "This is the so-called guldiner, which was the predecessor of the tolar and we consider it a hybrid mintage between a coin and a medal because it did not yet have a standardised weight. Although they were a means of payment, they fulfilled primarily a representative function," explains Macho. "These coins were undoubtedly among the most beautiful coins in the world at that time.. At the auction on 25 October we are auctioning one of the two known examples of 6 ducats, even the most beautiful known piece on the market," he announces, adding that it is the first six-double-double struck in Kremnica.
Coins from the Celtic period that are more than 2,000 years old will also be auctioned, such as a quarter of a statue with a torques motif with a starting price of €20,000. "The coin is well preserved and will surely become the pride of even the most demanding collectors.," Macho says, pointing out that a coin of this type and denomination has never been auctioned before. The coin depicts a torques, a neckcloth that was an important status item in Celtic society. It probably functioned as a protective amulet and perhaps also as a symbol of power and social status. It is one of the obligatory objects depicted on rare works of art of Central European Celts.
The autumn auction will also include a wide range of banknotes, which will delight collectors with more than three hundred specimens. For example, you will be able to auction 100 Ks 1940 - an extremely rare anulat in only a few pieces, designed by the famous Slovak painter and graphic artist Štefan Bednár, or a 10 K 1919 voucher designed by the world-famous painter and graphic artist Alfons Mucha in collaboration with Jan Štanc.
The auction will take place on 25 October 2024 at the Mandarin Oriental Prague, followed by the eLive part of the auction from 28 to 31 October. In total, more than 1,900 coins, medals and banknotes will be offered and the auction house estimates that their value could approach CZK 75 million.
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