Stephen Album Rare Coins held its Auction 44 on September 15-18, 2022, at its offices in Santa Rosa,California. The prices realized continue the trend of the firm's successful 2022 auctions, coming in at astrong $2.2 million (including buyer's fees) with a sell-through rate of 95.2%. Many items sold for well inexcess of their estimates, including some world record results. The Joe Sedillot Collection of WorldCoins, Part III was instrumental in achieving these results.

A selection of highlights follows (prices include buyer's fees):

CHINA: LOT 945: FUKIEN: Tao Kuang, 1820-1850, AR dollar, ND (1844), Kann-5, L&M-290, ChangchowMilitary Ration issue, character tong with open head variety, with single Chinese chopmark as usual forthis rare type, NGC graded AU details, RRR
Realized $45,000

INDIA: LOT 730: MUGHAL: Jahangir, 1605-1628, AR rupee (11.44g), Mandu, AH1026 year 12, KM-149.19, "fath-e dekkan" ("victory over the Deccan") commemorative, with the special couplet thattranslates as "the coin of the victory over the Deccan, struck at Mandu by the Shah of the Land and theSea // the emperor of the time, Shah Jahangir, son of Shah Akbar"; wonderful example, without anytestmarks, bold strike, NGC graded AU55, RRR
Realized $33,600

CHINA: LOT 978: KIRIN: Kuang Hsu, 1875-1908, AR dollar, CD1905, Y-183a.3, L& M-558, an attractivelustrous example! PCGS graded MS61
Realized $33,600

WORLD: LOT 1090: IRAN: Nasir al-Din Shah, 1848-1896, AR 5000 dinars (22.85g), AH1294, Kian-90,Opening of the New Tehran Mint Commemorative, with dies engraved by Franz Pechan (FP), an officialfrom the Vienna mint, PCGS graded SP-58, RRR, ex Durham Collection, #755
Realized $14,400

INDIA: LOT 342: FATIMID: al-Mansur, 946-953, AV 1/4 dinar (1.03g), Madinat Nabl, AH342, A-695, Nicol-204, month of al-Muharram; exceedingly rare mint, now called Nabeul in north-eastern Tunisia (ancientGreek city founded in the 5th century BC as Neapolis, "new city"), coastal port closest to Sicily, appealingVF-EF, RRRR
Realized $11,400

ETHNOGRAPHIC: LOT 1705: MICRONESIA: Yap, rai stone money (12010g), ca. 1871-1931, Opitz p.316-321, Opitz (2011) p.533 (plate example), 34 x 28.5 x 9cm (13.4" x 11.2" x 3.5", 26.48 lbs.), made fromcrystalline calcite (aragonite per Opitz), holed in the center, a very nice example of this famousethnographic currency, VF, RR, ex Charles Opitz Collection
Realized $9,000

WORLD: LOT 1556: ESSEQUIBO & DEMARARY: George III, 1760-1820, AR 3 guilders, 1809, KM-8, Prid-4,edge grained left, nicely detailed despite the shallow-strike that is standard for this type, much originalmint bloom present, PCGS graded MS62, R
Realized $7,200

INDIA: LOT 813: BRITISH INDIA: Victoria, Empress, 1876-1901, AR 1/2 rupee, 1889-C, KM-491, S&W-6.202, a superb lustrous example! PCGS graded MS65
Realized $6,600

ANCIENT: LOT 27: ARMENIA: Tigranes II "the Great", 95-56 BC, AR tetradrachm (15.96g), Antioch onOrontes, Nercessian-34, Kovacs-71.2, diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with starbetween two eagles // Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding palm frond, river-god Orontesswimming right below, smoothing on obverse, nice reverse, VF
Realized $2,640

ETHNOGRAPHIC: LOT 1073: BRUNEI: brass cannon money (637g), 19th to early 20th century, Opitzp.100 (plate example), cf. SS-60, 179mm, lovely old example, VF-EF
Realized $1,320

Company COO Mike Barry noted

The firm is preparing for its Literature Auction 1 on October 17, 2022, and a 2000 lot coin auction(Internet Auction 18) on November 7-8, 2022. They are also taking consignments for their next PremierAuction, Number 45, which will take place January 19-22, 2023.

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