Heritage to Offer Historic Peh Family Collection in Hong Kong and ANA Auctions

A collection of coins from around the globe assembled by a successful businessman from Singapore is headed to the world’s leading auctioneer of World and Ancient coins. The Peh Family Collection is so impressive, in both quantity and quality, that it is being offered in two of the largest and most important auctions on the numismatic calendar.

Selections from the Peh Family Collection will be offered at Heritage Auctions’ HKINF World Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction – Hong Kong June 18-20 and at Heritage’s ANA World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction August 28.

"This is an outstanding collection, one that reflects a discerning eye and deep historical understanding of significant coins from many parts of the world," says Cris Bierrenbach, Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "It is an honor to bring such an elite and thoughtfully curated numismatic assemblage to market."

From 2004-2014, Peh collected extensively, poring over catalogs and journals and frequenting auctions in person, many in the United Kingdom. He not only pursued elite coins, he also kept them – he never parted with a single piece he collected at any time in his life.

Peh initially focused his collecting on coins of his homeland – Singapore, the Straits Settlements, Malaysia and North Borneo – until his desire for exceptional coins required him to expand his reach, into regional neighbor countries like Japan and China and eventually around the world, with treasures from far-ranging locales like Great Britain, Russia, Brazil and Netherlands East Indies.

Selections from the Peh Family Collection that will be offered at the HKINF World Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction include, but are not limited to:

• A Kuang-hsü silver Restrike Pattern Tael CD 1906 MS66 PCGS that is recognized as a cardinal rarity across the Chinese series – the example in this collection is the highest-graded representative across the major certification companies for both original and restrike varieties

  

• A Meiji silver Proof Pattern Yen Year 3 (1870) PR64 NGC – a rare Pattern for the first machine-struck silver Japanese Yen; it is one of very few extant examples of this coin, which was minted shortly after the newly restored Meiji government established an official silver standard in 1870 as part of a radical adoption of round and decimalized coinage

  

• A Meiji silver Pattern Yen Year 34 (1901) MS62 NGC that is one of two known patterns produced to a reduced size during a period when Japan took on a reactive position in the global market to stabilize inflation and maintain standards; this coin was part of the experimentation with sunburst designs seen in post Meiji restoration silver Yens

  

• A Kweichow. Republic "Auto" Dollar Year 17 (1928) MS61 NGC that is a representative of the rarest variety of this iconic Chinese "Auto" Dollar and features a design commissioned by governor Chow His-chen to commemorate the completion of the first provincial highway in Kweichow

  

• A Hsüan-t’ung silver Specimen Pattern "Long-Whiskered Dragon" Dollar Year 3 (1911) MS63 NGC hailed as a giant of World numismatics and a must-have for any elite collection of Chinese rarities

  

• A Chinese Republic silver Pattern "Dragon & Phoenix" Dollar Year 12 (1923) MS62 NGC

  

• A French Colony Essai Pattern Piastre 1879-A MS65 from French Cochin-China

  

• A Japanese Meiji silver Proof Pattern Trade Dollar Year 7 (1874) PR62 NGC

  

• A Victoria Proof Dollar 1866 PR63 NGC from Hong Kong

  

Images and information about all lots in the auction can be found at HA.com/3124.

Top selections that will be in play at Heritage’s ANA World’s Fair of Money in August include, but are not limited to:

• A Victoria gold Proof "Una and the Lion" 5 Pounds 1839 PR63 Ultra Cameo NGC that is one of the most celebrated coins in World numismatics, features a design that cemented the artistic legacy of engraver William Wyon and is the last measurably attainable grade across NGC and PCGS for this variety from Great Britain

  

• An exceedingly rare United East India Company (VOC) gold Proof Pattern Ducaton 1728 PR63 NGC that is one of only two examples known to the grading services for this date-type from Netherlands East Indies

  

• A R.S.F.S.R. 5-Piece Proof Set 1922-ПЛ PR65 NGC that includes a Russian Rouble, 50 Kopecks, 20 Kopecks, 15 Kopecks, 10 Kopecks – each of which is rare in Proof format – and exceedingly hard to come by when offered as a complete set

  

• An Arsinöe II Philadelphus (277-270/268 BC). AV mnaieion or octodrachm. NGC MS 5/5 – 2/5 that was a posthumous Egyptian issue of Alexandria

  

• A João V gold 6400 Reis (Peça) 1727-B AU Details NGC from Brazil

  

• A Charles I gold Triple Unite 1643 AU50 PCGS from Great Britain

  

• A George II gold 5 Guineas 1746 AU55 NGC – also from Great Britain

  

• A "Monument to the Victory at Kulm" gold Medal 1835-Dated MS62 Prooflike NGC from Russia

  

• An Estados Unidos silver Proof Essai "Caballito" Peso 1909 PR64 NGC from Mexico

  

Images and information about all lots in the auction can be found at HA.com/3125.

Consignments to be offered alongside this incredible collection will be accepted through April 18 for the HKINF World Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction – Hong Kong and through June 17 for the ANA World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction. To consign, please contact worldcoins@HA.com.

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