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    ORDERS AWARDED TO THE MAN WHO SOLD ALASKA TO UNITED STATES SELL FOR £187,680, Rub 8.5m, US$307,791, IN LONDON AUCTION Orders awarded by Czar Alexander II to the diplomat who negotiated the deal for the United States to buy Alaska from Russia and his son sold for £187,680 (Rub 8.5m, US $307,791), in a sale by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London today (Friday June 10, 2011). The purchase of what eventually became America's 49th State occurred in 1867 following an all-night session of negotiation between US Secretary of State William H. Seward and Edouard de Stoeckl (1804-1892), Russia's Minister to the United States. America paid $7.2 million dollars for what was originally called the District of Alaska, an area twice the size of Texas. Critics called the purchase "Seward's Folly" and the land "Seward's Icebox", but the discovery in due course of gold, copper and oil proved it to have been a good investment. Baron de Stoeckl's honours from a relieved Czar Alexander II, in financially difficult times, were considerable. The most valuable today were sets of insignia for the Order of the White Eagle, dated 1869, and the Order of St Vladimir, Second Class, which each sold for £66,000 ($108,239, Rub 2,997,760). A First Class Grand Cross set of insignia of the Order of St Anne was estimated at £10,000-15,000 but sold for £25,200 ($41,327, Rub 1,144,600). Edouard de Stoeckl was born in Constantinople and became a Russian diplomat, serving as Chargé d'Affaires in Washington following the death of the Ambassador Baron Alexander de Bodisco in 1854. In 1857, he was named Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States and, like his predecessor, de Bodisco, he married an American girl, Eliza Howard. The couple enjoyed a very active social life, with Eliza becoming the toast of the Imperial Court during a visit to Russia in 1860. Well-rewarded by Alexander II, both financially and with the honours in the sale, Baron de Stoeckl retired to Paris with his family in 1869. Edouard's son Alexander ('Sasha') de Stoeckl (1862-1926) was named after Alexander II, his godfather. Able in later life to recall attending Lincoln's funeral, Alexander was educated mainly in Paris and joined the Diplomatic Corps on leaving school. He served at the Russian Embassy in Paris, where he served as Equerry to Grand Duke Michael and later accompanied the Grand Duke on his return to St Petersburg to attend his father's funeral in 1909. In Morton & Eden's auction of Ancient, British, Islamic and World Coins the previous day (June 9), a unique, small silver drachm dating from when the city of Katana (modern Catania) in eastern Sicily was occupied by the Syracusans sold for £84,000 ($137,760), more than double the pre-sale estimate. The Aitna drachm, weighing just over 4 grams and 16mm in diameter, depicted on its obverse a naked youth on horseback, precisely copying the design of such coins at Syracuse, but its reverse introduced a new type showing Zeus Aitnaios, the patron god of Mount Etna, enthroned, holding a thunderbolt and sceptre surmounted by an eagle. It dated from the 15-year period between 475 and 460 BC when Katana's indigenous population had been expelled and the city renamed Aitna because of its close proximity to Mount Etna. For further information, contact James Morton or Tom Eden at Morton & Eden, telephone 020 7493 5344 or info@mortonandeden.com. Notes to editors: Morton & Eden Ltd., are specialist auctioneers of Collectors' Coins of all periods and types, War Medals, Orders and Decorations, Historical Medals and Banknotes. The company was founded in 2001 by James Morton and Tom Eden, who were both directors of the Coins and Medals Department at Sotheby's, with whom the company maintains a close association. All Morton & Eden sales are held at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, W1.

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    ORDERS AWARDED TO THE MAN WHO SOLD ALASKA TO UNITED STATES SELL FOR £187,680, Rub 8.5m, US$307,791, IN LONDON AUCTION Orders awarded by Czar Alexander II to the diplomat who negotiated the deal for the United States to buy Alaska from Russia and his son sold for £187,680 (Rub 8.5m, US $307,791), in a sale by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London today (Friday June 10, 2011). The purchase of what eventually became America's 49th State occurred in 1867 following an all-night session of negotiation between US Secretary of State William H. Seward and Edouard de Stoeckl (1804-1892), Russia's Minister to the United States. America paid $7.2 million dollars for what was originally called the District of Alaska, an area twice the size of Texas. Critics called the purchase "Seward's Folly" and the land "Seward's Icebox", but the discovery in due course of gold, copper and oil proved it to have been a good investment. Baron de Stoeckl's honours from a relieved Czar Alexander II, in financially difficult times, were considerable. The most valuable today were sets of insignia for the Order of the White Eagle, dated 1869, and the Order of St Vladimir, Second Class, which each sold for £66,000 ($108,239, Rub 2,997,760). A First Class Grand Cross set of insignia of the Order of St Anne was estimated at £10,000-15,000 but sold for £25,200 ($41,327, Rub 1,144,600). Edouard de Stoeckl was born in Constantinople and became a Russian diplomat, serving as Chargé d'Affaires in Washington following the death of the Ambassador Baron Alexander de Bodisco in 1854. In 1857, he was named Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States and, like his predecessor, de Bodisco, he married an American girl, Eliza Howard. The couple enjoyed a very active social life, with Eliza becoming the toast of the Imperial Court during a visit to Russia in 1860. Well-rewarded by Alexander II, both financially and with the honours in the sale, Baron de Stoeckl retired to Paris with his family in 1869. Edouard's son Alexander ('Sasha') de Stoeckl (1862-1926) was named after Alexander II, his godfather. Able in later life to recall attending Lincoln's funeral, Alexander was educated mainly in Paris and joined the Diplomatic Corps on leaving school. He served at the Russian Embassy in Paris, where he served as Equerry to Grand Duke Michael and later accompanied the Grand Duke on his return to St Petersburg to attend his father's funeral in 1909. In Morton & Eden's auction of Ancient, British, Islamic and World Coins the previous day (June 9), a unique, small silver drachm dating from when the city of Katana (modern Catania) in eastern Sicily was occupied by the Syracusans sold for £84,000 ($137,760), more than double the pre-sale estimate. The Aitna drachm, weighing just over 4 grams and 16mm in diameter, depicted on its obverse a naked youth on horseback, precisely copying the design of such coins at Syracuse, but its reverse introduced a new type showing Zeus Aitnaios, the patron god of Mount Etna, enthroned, holding a thunderbolt and sceptre surmounted by an eagle. It dated from the 15-year period between 475 and 460 BC when Katana's indigenous population had been expelled and the city renamed Aitna because of its close proximity to Mount Etna. For further information, contact James Morton or Tom Eden at Morton & Eden, telephone 020 7493 5344 or info@mortonandeden.com. Notes to editors: Morton & Eden Ltd., are specialist auctioneers of Collectors' Coins of all periods and types, War Medals, Orders and Decorations, Historical Medals and Banknotes. The company was founded in 2001 by James Morton and Tom Eden, who were both directors of the Coins and Medals Department at Sotheby's, with whom the company maintains a close association. All Morton & Eden sales are held at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, W1.

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    Morton and Eden Coins 49 TOP TEN

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    ORDERS AWARDED TO THE MAN WHO SOLD ALASKA TO UNITED STATES SELL FOR £187,680, Rub 8.5m, US$307,791, IN LONDON AUCTION Orders awarded by Czar Alexander II to the diplomat who negotiated the deal for the United States to buy Alaska from Russia and his son sold for £187,680 (Rub 8.5m, US $307,791), in a sale by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London today (Friday June 10, 2011). The purchase of what eventually became America's 49th State occurred in 1867 following an all-night session of negotiation between US Secretary of State William H. Seward and Edouard de Stoeckl (1804-1892), Russia's Minister to the United States. America paid $7.2 million dollars for what was originally called the District of Alaska, an area twice the size of Texas. Critics called the purchase "Seward's Folly" and the land "Seward's Icebox", but the discovery in due course of gold, copper and oil proved it to have been a good investment. Baron de Stoeckl's honours from a relieved Czar Alexander II, in financially difficult times, were considerable. The most valuable today were sets of insignia for the Order of the White Eagle, dated 1869, and the Order of St Vladimir, Second Class, which each sold for £66,000 ($108,239, Rub 2,997,760). A First Class Grand Cross set of insignia of the Order of St Anne was estimated at £10,000-15,000 but sold for £25,200 ($41,327, Rub 1,144,600). Edouard de Stoeckl was born in Constantinople and became a Russian diplomat, serving as Chargé d'Affaires in Washington following the death of the Ambassador Baron Alexander de Bodisco in 1854. In 1857, he was named Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States and, like his predecessor, de Bodisco, he married an American girl, Eliza Howard. The couple enjoyed a very active social life, with Eliza becoming the toast of the Imperial Court during a visit to Russia in 1860. Well-rewarded by Alexander II, both financially and with the honours in the sale, Baron de Stoeckl retired to Paris with his family in 1869. Edouard's son Alexander ('Sasha') de Stoeckl (1862-1926) was named after Alexander II, his godfather. Able in later life to recall attending Lincoln's funeral, Alexander was educated mainly in Paris and joined the Diplomatic Corps on leaving school. He served at the Russian Embassy in Paris, where he served as Equerry to Grand Duke Michael and later accompanied the Grand Duke on his return to St Petersburg to attend his father's funeral in 1909. In Morton & Eden's auction of Ancient, British, Islamic and World Coins the previous day (June 9), a unique, small silver drachm dating from when the city of Katana (modern Catania) in eastern Sicily was occupied by the Syracusans sold for £84,000 ($137,760), more than double the pre-sale estimate. The Aitna drachm, weighing just over 4 grams and 16mm in diameter, depicted on its obverse a naked youth on horseback, precisely copying the design of such coins at Syracuse, but its reverse introduced a new type showing Zeus Aitnaios, the patron god of Mount Etna, enthroned, holding a thunderbolt and sceptre surmounted by an eagle. It dated from the 15-year period between 475 and 460 BC when Katana's indigenous population had been expelled and the city renamed Aitna because of its close proximity to Mount Etna. For further information, contact James Morton or Tom Eden at Morton & Eden, telephone 020 7493 5344 or info@mortonandeden.com. Notes to editors: Morton & Eden Ltd., are specialist auctioneers of Collectors' Coins of all periods and types, War Medals, Orders and Decorations, Historical Medals and Banknotes. The company was founded in 2001 by James Morton and Tom Eden, who were both directors of the Coins and Medals Department at Sotheby's, with whom the company maintains a close association. All Morton & Eden sales are held at Sotheby's in New Bond Street, W1.

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    SALE RESULTS

    C49: Ancient, British, Islamic and World Coins, Historical Medals and Paper Money Thursday June 9 2011
    Prices shown include the Buyers Premium of 20%

    SALE TOTAL: SOLD BY VALUE: Lot

    618,564 95%

    LOTS OFFERED: 666 EXCHANGE RATE: 1.64 Price (GBP) Buyer

    Estimate

    202 40,000-50,000 84,000 ($137,760) European dealer Sicily, Aitna, drachm, 476-470 BC, naked youth on horseback riding to right, rev., AITN-AI-ON, Zeus Aitnaios, wearing himation, seated right on throne, holding thunderbolt and sceptre surmounted by an eagle or possibly a dove (also sacred to Zeus), his feet resting on footstool, 4.18g (Boehringer, C., Hieron's Aitna und das Heroneion, JNG 18, 1968, pp. 67-98 and pl. 7, 2, this piece; Dobretsberger, J., Mitteilung der sterreichischen Numismatischen Gesellschaft, 1961, 6, p. 49-50; Kraay, ACGC, p. 212; de Callata, F. and H. Gitler, The Coin of Coins, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2004, p. 29 and footnote 17), with faint traces of overstriking in the reverse field, good very fine, of historical importance and the only recorded example. Ex Auctiones 20, Basel, 8 November 1990, lot 117. In 476/5 BC the tyrant Hieron of Syracuse moved his capital to Katana, expelling the indigenous population and renaming it Aitna because of its close proximity to Mount Etna. The occupation lasted some 15 years until 460 BC when, after Hieron's death, the Katanians retook their city, in turn expelling the former Syracusans who resettled at nearby Inessa. The present coin stems from Aitna's first coinage of 475-470 BC and, together with a unique tetradachm (Antikenmuseum Basel 250), they are today the only recorded specimens of this coinage. Their obverses are copied from Syracusan prototypes, the tetradrachm with its quadriga (although driven here by Athena) and the present drachm, with its naked youth on horseback, which is virtually identical to Boehringer (Syracuse) obverse die V.29. However both display on their reverses a new type of the enthroned Zeus Aitnaios, the patron god of Mount Etna, and of the two, the drachm is the better preserved in terms of revealing the entirety of the design. Both show traces of overstriking suggesting a brief issue when old coins were re-struck rather than using new flans manufactured for the coining process. Besides its great rarity, the importance of the present coin lies in the iconography of the enthroned Zeus for it must have acted as an inspiration for the famous and unique tetradrachm of Aitna of circa 460 BC now in the Brussels cabinet (Collection Lucien de Hirsch 269; Boehringer pl. 15, Z1; Jenkins 364; Kraay-Hirmer 33 etc.) by the so-called Aitna Master, who is also considered to have been the author of the Naxos tetradrachm of the same date (Cahn 54; Kraay-Hirmer 6 etc.). It has been suggested that the reverses of the coins of Aitna may be evidence of the existence of a cult statue of Zeus erected on the summit of Mount Etna, now lost (see de Callata and Gitler, op. cit., p. 20).

    194 10,000-15,000 38,400 ($62,975) European dealer Italy, Lucania, Metapontum, gold third stater, c. 334-330 BC, head of Hera right, wearing stephane and pendant earring, her hair in curly locks falling to her shoulders, rev., , sixgrained ear of barley with dove perched on leaf on the right, 2.65g (Johnson p. 84, G1; SNG ANS 395; Dewing 377), minor marks but extremely fine and very rare Ex Tradart auction, Geneva, 8 November 1992, lot 16. 196 4,000-6,000 18,000 ($25,519) European dealer Italy, Bruttium, Terina, stater, 420-400 BC, head of nymph Terina right, her hair bound with sphendone, rev., Nike, wearing chiton and himation, seated left on square cippus, a dove alighting on her extended right hand, 7.94g (Holloway & Jenkins 63, this piece; Regling 66-67; SNG ANS 841), toned, about extremely fine 411 15,000-20,000 15,600 ($25,583) UK dealer Later Khusraw II type, drachm, Dimashq 74h, standard bust of Khusraw II with his name in Pahlawi before, in outer margin in Arabic: bismillah | la ilaha illa Allah wa- | hdahu Muhammad | rasul Allah, rev., fire-altar with attendants, to right: Dimashq (in Arabic); to left: arbat wa saba`in, 3.73g (cf Walker p.23, DD.1; cf ANS 1971.316.35), some deposit in centre of reverse, otherwise almost extremely fine and extremely rare (see also back cover illustration) 15,000-20,000 Apparently an unpublished variety of this important transitional issue, with a different spacing of the legends in the obverse margin and the unit of the date written arb`at with a final ta marbuta 241 7,000-10,000 13,200 ($21,647) US private collector Mysia, Cyzicus, electrum stater, c. 500-450 BC, protome of horse left with tunny fish behind, rev., quadripartite incuse square, 16.06g (von Fritze -), good very fine, unpublished and apparently unique This is a previously unrecorded type for a stater of Cyzicus although it is known as a hecte, a single example of which was published by Hurter and Liewald, SNR 81, 2002, p. 33, 40. 3 5,000-7,000 11,400 ($18,695) UK dealer William III, fine work five-guineas, 1701, second laureate head right, rev., crowned cruciform shields, plain sceptres in angles, DEC- IMO TERTIO edge, 41.60g (S. 3456), red tone, minor nick on neck, nearly extremely fine 180 10,000-15,000 11,400 ($18.695) US private collector Italy, John VIII Palaeologus (Byzantine Emperor, 1423-1448), lead medal by Pisanello, bust right wearing hat with tall crown and turned-up brim, rev., OPVS PISANI PICTO-RIX, the emperor on horseback riding past a shrine and a page on horseback seen from behind, in a rocky landscape; below, W, 104mm (Hill 19; Pollard 1 = Kress 1; Bargello 2; Syson & Gordon 71), with some surface scuffs and edge knocks, pierced, a very fine contemporary cast with grey patina This is generally considered to be the earliest of Pisanello's medals and as such represents the birth of the portrait medal in the Renaissance. The Byzantine emperor was in Italy from 8th February 1438 to 19th October 1439 to attend the ecumenical council of the Greek and Latin churches which opened in Ferrara in April 1438. The council was subsequently moved to Florence in January 1439 after Ferrara was invaded by Milanese mercenaries under the condottiere Niccol Piccinino. Preparatory drawings by Pisanello for elements of the designs in the medal are in the Louvre, Paris.

    179 2,000-2,500 10,200 ($16,727) UK dealer Hungary, Death of Louis II at the Battle of Mohacs, 1526, struck silver medal by Christof Fssl, busts of Ludwig II and his wife Maria von Habsburg vis vis, rev., the king on horseback in full armour with his troops facing a Turkish cavalry charge, 45mm, 19.66g (Montenuovo 585; Domanig 698; Donebauer 984), finely toned original striking, extremely fine From the collection of Dr Elder L. Bolla and Dr Helena J. Bolla of Beaumont, California. The medallist Christof Fssl was principal engraver at the Kremnica mint from 1536 and died in 1561 (see Schillerov, J., Renaissance Medals from the Kremnica Mint, The Medal 10, 1986, p. 3, fig. 2). The medal commemorates the Battle of Mohacs where the Hungarian forces were heavily outnumbered by the Ottomans under Suleyman the Magnificent and Louis himself was killed. 199 4,000-6,000 7,200 ($11,807) European dealer Italy, Bruttium, Terina, stater, 420-400 BC, head of nymph Terina left, her hair bound with sphendone and wearing necklace; on left, ; behind head, , rev., Nike, wearing chiton and himation, seated left on square cippus, a dove alighting on her extended right hand in which she holds a wreath; to right of cippus, , 7.74g (Holloway & Jenkins 61; Regling 63; SNG Copenhagen 2010) SNG ANS 853; Kraay-Hirmer 280), light marks and with slight obverse double striking, toned and about extremely fine Ex Leu 71, Zurich, 24 October 1997, lot 44. 25 4,000-6,000 6,600 ($10,823) UK dealer Victoria, sovereign, 1887 M, young head left, rev., crowned shield within wreath (S. 3854; Marsh 68 (R3)), very light bag marks, good extremely fine, rare thus COMMENT: Tom Eden commented: "The highlight of this sale was the dispersal of the Dove collection of ancient Greek coins where the unique drachm from Aitna doubled its low estimate at 84,000 after spirited bidding. The numismatic market continues to be strong and the excellent results in this sale, with very little left unsold, reflected this". Notes to editors: Morton & Eden Ltd., are specialist auctioneers of Collectors Coins of all periods and types, War Medals, Orders and Decorations, Historical Medals and Banknotes. The company was founded in 2001 by James Morton and Tom Eden, who were both directors of the Coins and Medals Department at Sothebys, with whom the company maintains a close association. For more information regarding this sale please contact: Press Officer: Christopher Proudlove, Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1492 544514. Email: chris@chris-proudlove.co.uk. Images are available on request.

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