- After hiding the Nazis, 15,000 rare coins from more than 100 regions appeared.
- The collection contains a large 348.5 grams of gold mine worth $ 1.35 million.
- The first auction of the historical collection planned in May 2025.
Sometimes the treasures are stored straight – to find out that the lucky person who buys Bitcoin or 50 USD Garage sales picture worth $ 750 million in the trash, is worth only $ 15 million. Now, another discovery is to make headlines: ‘Traveler Collection’, which has been buried underground for more than 50 years and finally sees the daylight with an auction.
This numismatic gold mine is worth 100 million dollars (~ ~ $ 160 million AUD) and the most valuable collection so far for the auction. The first sales is the program for May 20, 2025 and Nümismatica ars classica (NAC), to mark a historical moment in the world of high -betting coin collection.
A collection of crisis and adventure
The story behind the traveler collection seems directly outside a film. Everything started later 1929 Wall Street AccidentWhen a European collector and his wife enter into an ambitious quest to obtain the most rare, most important money in America and Europe. They built an extraordinary portfolio in pieces, and carefully documented each purchase along the way that provides an invaluable record of the origin of each piece.
Then came II. World war. As the Nazis progressed through Europe, the collector encountered a painful decision. Rather than the risk of losing his life, he chose to bury the entire collection underground and sealed his money in cigar boxes and aluminum containers before he was lost in history.
For more than twenty years, the collection has not been touched, but recently the original collector’s varicose veins took the treasury that has been going on for a long time, and a full circle has brought one of the largest numismatic stories. NAC Director Arturo Russo stated that about the coins:
“This is the most valuable numismatic collection to the auction. The wide range of money offered and the perfect quality, the number of large rareness and the fascinating story of the formation of the collection will make these sales a turning point in the numismatic history.”
An unprecedented numismatic heritage
The collection is expected to sell one of the largest European gold coins so far, which weighs 348.5 grams of thin gold, including 100 Ducat Gold Coin of Ferdinand III (1629), representing one of the largest European gold coins. Another notable part of the collection is the Poland King Sigismund III (1621) 70 Ducat Mine, which gives clues at 243 grams of scales and is estimated to have a $ 471,700 value.
Most of these coins have not been purchased for more than 80 years, and some have not been documented even in numismatic records. For this reason, the first auction in May will be the monumental and will focus on British machinery money from Charles II, a full display at the Nac’s London office during April.
The three-year auction series is set as a surreal moment for both historians and collectors, because these coins are more than the gold and silver collection-they represent a story and an unbreakable connection with the past.
Related Stories
