COLLECTION VALUE

Throughout history, noblemen and men of the church, as well as lawyers, doctors and craftsmen, irrespective of their activities, understood early on that they were holding more than just a plaything in their hands. By preserving a heritage, they were serving science. Numismatics also satisfied their interests, giving worth to their passion, to the point that their names were carved in history for their role in preserving the best specimens of a creative art form that has disappeared for ever.

PATRIMONIAL VALUE

Today, often difficult to acquire, and rarely contemplated, these coins are evidence of a universally shared attraction and each year are traded to the highest bidder under the authority of an auctioneer at no fewer than one hundred public auctions in Geneva, New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles… The prices obtained, and published for these sales, attest to the ever-increasing scarcity of the best examples hoarded by museums, institutions and private collectors.