有史以来最有价值的硬币收藏之一正在销售

有史以来最有价值的硬币收藏之一正在上市 - 它有一个故事可以符合其高价标签。

One of the most valuable coin collections ever assembled is coming to market—and it has a story to match its lofty price tag.

有史以来最有价值的硬币收藏之一正在上市，并且有一个故事可以符合其高价标签。

For starters, there’s the element of mystery: the inheritor of this 15,000-strong collection that has been insured at more than $100 million has chosen to remain anonymous. What is clear, as offered by the consignee Numismatica Ars Classica, is that in the 1930s, the heir to a European family business became very obsessed with coins.

对于初学者来说，这是一个神秘的要素：这个15,000人收藏的继承者已被保险超过1亿美元，以保持匿名。明显的是，收货人Numismatica Ars Classica提供的是，在1930年代，欧洲家族企业的继承人非常痴迷于硬币。

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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the trigger, pushing the young man to seek out alternate avenues for storing wealth. First came gold bullion, then coins. Freed from the day-to-day operations of the family business, the collector spent the 1930s hopscotching across Europe and the Americas with his new wife acquiring coins. The coin firm calls the period “an extended honeymoon” and has labelled the assembly the Traveller Collection.

1929年的华尔街撞车事故是触发因素，促使年轻人寻求储存财富的替代途径。首先是金条，然后是硬币。收藏家从家族企业的日常运营中解脱出来，在1930年代在欧洲和美洲度过了啤酒花，他的新妻子收购硬币。硬币公司称这一时期为“延长的蜜月”，并将大会标记为Traveler Collection。

But for more than half a century, the Traveller Collection went nowhere at all. During World War II, the collector became fearful and decided to enclose his gold and silver coins in cigar boxes and bury them in his garden. When the German forces indeed invade, he died shortly thereafter. Only his wife knew the collection’s location and she chose to keep it a secret until the mid-1990s.

但是半个多世纪以来，旅行者的收藏根本无处可去。在第二次世界大战期间，收藏家变得恐惧，并决定将他的黄金和银币包裹在雪茄盒中，然后将它们埋在他的花园里。当德国军队确实入侵时，他不久就去世了。只有他的妻子才知道收藏品的位置，她才选择将其保密，直到1990年代中期。

A 70 ducat coin of the Polish king Sigismund III. Photo: courtesy Numismatica Ars Classica.

波兰国王西吉斯蒙德三世的70 ducat硬币。照片：支出的钱币Ars Classica。

Now, nearly a century on from the Traveller Collection’s beginning, Numismatica Ars Classica is set to sell off the coins in a series of 15 auctions spanning three years. “[It’s] a landmark in the history of numismatics,” said Arturo Russo, the coin firm’s director. “The catalogues of the Traveller Collection will serve as an important reference for the future collectors and scholars.”

现在，从Traveler Collection开始将近一个世纪的时间，Numismatica Ars Classica将在一系列三年的15次拍卖中出售硬币。硬币公司总监Arturo Russo说：“这是数值历史上的地标。” “旅行者收藏的目录将成为未来收藏家和学者的重要参考。”

The first sale, on May 20, will focus on 200 of the collection’s British coins and medallions. This spans the first machine-struck coins of Charles II’s reign in the 17th-century through to a set created for the coronation of George VI in 1937. One highlight is the Una and the Lion, a £5 gold coin that was designed by the master coin-maker William Wyon in 1839. Drawing from The Faerie Queene (1590) an epic poem by Edmund Spenser, the reverse depicts a young and fair Queen Victoria walking alongside a lion. It’s estimated to sell for 250,000 CHF ($284,000).

5月20日的首次交易将重点关注该系列的200枚英国硬币和奖章。这跨越了查尔斯二世（Charles II）在17世纪统治到1937年为乔治六世（George VI）加冕而创建的一套统治。一个亮点是Una and Lion，这是一枚5英镑的金币，这是由Coin-Coin-Maker Maker-Maker Minker William Wyon设计的5英镑的金币。公平的维多利亚女王在狮子旁边行走。估计出售25万瑞士法郎（284,000美元）。

An Athens gold stater, struck in 296 BC by the tyrant Lachares. Photo: courtesy Numismatica Ars Classica.

雅典金船主在公元前296年被暴君拉卡雷斯（Lachares）击中。照片：支出的钱币Ars Classica。

As the initial listings show, the collector boasted an omnivorous appetite. There’s an Athens gold stater struck in 296 B.C.E by Lachares to pay his troops as the city was being besieged by Demetrius, the king of Macedonia. Greek city states typically used silver for coins and the story goes that Lachares stripped the statue of the goddess Athena to strike the coins—it was in vain: Demetrius took Athens in 294 B.C.E. It’s estimated at 125,000 CHF ($142,000).

正如最初的列表所示，收藏家拥有杂食性的食欲。拉卡雷斯（Lachares）于公元前296年袭击了雅典金船主，因为马其顿国王德米特里乌里乌斯（Demetrius）围困了这座城市。希腊城州通常将银制成硬币，故事说拉查勒斯（Lachares）剥夺了雅典娜女神的雕像来击中硬币 - 这是徒劳的：德米特里（Demetrius）于公元前294年接管雅典，估计为125,000 CHF（142,000美元）。

The one Ounce Port Phillip Coin from the Traveller Collection. Photo: courtesy Numismatica Ars Classica.

Traveler Collection的一盎司菲利普港硬币。照片：支出的钱币Ars Classica。

Elsewhere there’s a 70 ducat coin from 1621 of the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa, who imposed Catholicism across his territory and transferred the capital from Kraków to Warsaw. A 100-ducat coin of the king, also minted in 1621, sold for $2.2 million in 2018, a record for a Polish coin. Numismatica Ars Classica is offering an estimate of CHF 450,000 ($511,000). The Australian Port Philip coin, which features a kangaroo and stems from one of the country’s earliest mints, is estimated at 250,000 CHF ($284,000)

在1621年波兰国王西吉斯蒙德三世瓦萨（Sigismund III Vasa）的1621年，他在他的领土上强加了天主教，并将首都从克拉科夫转移到华沙。国王的100多加款硬币，也于1621年铸造，在2018年以220万美元的价格售出，这是波兰硬币的记录。 Numismatica Ars Classica提供的估计值为450,000（$ 511,000）。澳大利亚菲利普港（Port Philip Coin

One of the rarest offerings is a set of five tomans, an old Persian monetary unit. It was minted at the turn of the 19th-century and only five complete sets are known to exist. It has been estimated at 2 million CHF ($2.3 million).

最稀有的产品之一是五个托马斯（Tomans），一个老波斯货币单位。它是在19世纪之交的铸造中，只有五个完整的组合存在。估计为200万瑞士法郎（230万美元）。

Ahead of the sale of British coins, David Guest, an expert brought in to consult on the sale, said the Traveller Collection was unrivalled.

在出售英国硬币之前，戴维·格林（David Guest）是一位专家咨询出售的专家，他说旅行者收藏无与伦比。