Stack’s Bowers Galleries is proud to announce The Zurich Sale of Ancient and World Coins, to be held alongside Half II of the L.E. Bruun Assortment on March 13-16, 2025, on the Lodge Baur au Lac in Zurich, Switzerland.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries has lengthy held auctions of historic and world cash within the United States and for the final decade and a half in Hong Kong. Extra not too long ago, Stack’s Bowers Galleries expanded its operations into Europe via the opening of its Copenhagen, Denmark places of work and because the official auctioneer of the MIF Paper Cash Truthful in Maastricht.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ worldwide growth has continued with the auctions of the L.E. Bruun Assortment of Scandinavian Coinage, the world’s most beneficial assortment of world cash to ever come to market. The inaugural L.E. Bruun Assortment public sale grossed €14,820,900 (roughly $16.5 million) on September 14, 2025, in Copenhagen.
The gathering, amassed by Bruun (the Danish “butter king”) from the 1850s via his dying in 1923, was held as a reserve for the Royal Danish Coin and Medal Assortment for a interval of 100 years after his dying. If the Royal Assortment was broken or stolen throughout that century, the L.E. Bruun Assortment would turn out to be a present to the Danish state. But when the Royal Assortment remained intact, the gathering can be offered at public sale, with the proceeds benefitting Bruun’s direct descendants. On November 21, 2023, that 100-year ready interval ran out, and with the Royal Danish Coin and Medal Assortment intact, L.E. Bruun’s improbable assortment of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish numismatics turned destined for the public sale block, with Stack’s Bowers Galleries awarded the contract for this world-renowned assortment.
Capitalizing on worldwide consideration for the continued sequence of L.E. Bruun auctions, Stack’s Bowers Galleries will maintain auctions of historic and world cash along side these of the L.E. Bruun Assortment. The primary of those, The Stack’s Bowers Zurich Sale, might be held alongside Half II of the Bruun Assortment in Zurich in March 2025, and embody a curated mixture of cash of the traditional and trendy worlds. Consignments might be actively accepted via December 5, 2024. For extra details about consigning, please contact Stack’s Bowers Galleries at +1 949.253.0916 (US) or +45.80 40 49 42 (Denmark) or e-mail [email protected].
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