Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
May 2022 Hong Kong Auction 3-9 May 2022
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CHINA. Kwangtung. Gold 20 Cents Restrike, "Year 13" (1924). NGC AU-58.
cf. L&M-155 (for regular issue in silver); cf. K-735 (same); KM-Pn23; cf. WS-0970 (same). ASTOUNDINGLY RARE, this off-metal striking in gold--though listed as a pattern in KM--may well have functioned instead as a presentation issue gifted to an important dignitary or official. The paucity of records about this piece in the literature is certain to appeal to many, as the Kann number assigned to this example on the holder is incorrect (possibly a conflation of the silver striking references in L&M and Kann). Outside of the pattern designation in KM, no other source mentions its existence. More definitively, this example provides a handsome sheen of golden luster and some orange golden toning. Though essentially unhandled, this specimen does displays some very subtle tooling in the fields that blends in quite well with the nature of the die polishing. With very few pieces of this composition known to have reached the secondary market (this being just one of three found by the cataloger), this beauty provides the collector who wants the best of RARITIES a chance at an evocative issue.
Ex: Baldwin's/Hong Kong 45 (8/2008) Lot # 1284.
Estimate: $15000 - $25000
cf. L&M-155 (for regular issue in silver); cf. K-735 (same); KM-Pn23; cf. WS-0970 (same). ASTOUNDINGLY RARE, this off-metal striking in gold--though listed as a pattern in KM--may well have functioned instead as a presentation issue gifted to an important dignitary or official. The paucity of records about this piece in the literature is certain to appeal to many, as the Kann number assigned to this example on the holder is incorrect (possibly a conflation of the silver striking references in L&M and Kann). Outside of the pattern designation in KM, no other source mentions its existence. More definitively, this example provides a handsome sheen of golden luster and some orange golden toning. Though essentially unhandled, this specimen does displays some very subtle tooling in the fields that blends in quite well with the nature of the die polishing. With very few pieces of this composition known to have reached the secondary market (this being just one of three found by the cataloger), this beauty provides the collector who wants the best of RARITIES a chance at an evocative issue.
Ex: Baldwin's/Hong Kong 45 (8/2008) Lot # 1284.
Estimate: $15000 - $25000