Danzig 1930 25 gulden

Heritage sale 3015, lot 24654

photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 24654 in Heritage sale 3015 (Long Beach, September 2011), where it sold for $2,817.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Free City gold 25 Gulden 1930, MS65 NGC, lightly toned with full mint brilliance, a choice example of this popular type." History does not record if these were seriously intended to circulate but none are known worn. The type was very elusive until recently, when a hoard appeared. Danzig, long part of Prussia and then Germany, was briefly independent 1919-39. Annexed by the Nazis, it fell to Poland in 1945 and was renamed Gdansk.

Recorded mintage: est. 3,000.

Specification: 7.988 g, 0.917 fine gold, .2354 troy oz AGW (same standard as a British sovereign).

Catalog reference: KM 150.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
• Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
• ^[1]Cristiano Bierrenbach and Warren Tucker, Heritage World Coin Auction 3015, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2011.

Link to:

• 1923 25 gulden
• Danzig 1932 5 gulden KM-156
• Coins and currency dated 1930
• return to coins of Danzig