Immense international interest was shown in the sale of a collection of Exceptional Ancient Greek Coins held on 24th October. The coins had been chosen with great care by an astute English collector over the last 50 years with an eye for beauty and rarity and the 168 coins realised a total of just over £4 million with every lot finding a buyer. The sold total was double the top estimate for the sale and demonstrated the current strength of the market for coins of the finest quality.
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April 4 Auction of Important Coins of the Islamic World
Rarest Of Islamic Coins Sells For £3.7 Million In London Auction
Morton & Eden Umayyad dinar is second most expensive coin ever sold at auction
One of the rarest and most highly-prized of all Islamic gold coins, struck possibly to coincide with an occasion when the Caliph himself led the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, sold for a record £3,720,000 in a sale at specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London. The price makes it the second most expensive coin ever auctioned.
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November 30 Orders and Medals auction realises £880,000

The catalogue for this sale is now published and can be downloaded as a PDF. An online version can also be viewed at invaluable.com or the-saleroom.com.

Our 10 June auction featured the outstanding group of Orders conferred during the 1830s upon John George Lambton, “Radical Jack”, the First Earl of Durham (1792-1840). A leading figure of the time, Lord Durham played a pivotal rôle in the drafting of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, and was also intimately involved with the establishment of constitutional monarchies in both Belgium and Greece, before his appointment as British Ambassador to Russia in 1835.
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