Top 20 Action Sales (2001-2010)

  • Ranking Auction Country Startprice Hammerprice  
  • 1 No. 42 - March 2009 Turkey € 75000 € 77000 1 Collection of the Ottoman Empire, 613 bonds & shares
  • 2 No. 39 - Sept. 2008 Great Britain € 20000 € 44000 2 British Exchequer Loan signed by Isaac Newton, 1710
  • 3 No. 42 - March 2009 Great Britain € 30000 € 30000 3 Stockton and Darlington Railway, share, 1830
  • 4 No. 38 - March 2008 Great Britain € 18000 € 28000 4 Iron Bridge Trust, share, 1777
  • 5 No. 34 - March 2004 FRANCE € 14000 € 27000 5 Compagnie des Indes Orientales, share, 1665
  • 6 No. 39 - Sept. 2008 NETHERLANDS € 20000 € 22000 6 Dutch East india Co. (VOC), Share purchase contract, 1689
  • 7 No. 42 - March 2009 RUSSIA € 17500 € 19000 7 Collection of 435 Russian bank shares and bonds
  • 8 No. 40 - March 2008 NETHERLANDS € 9000 € 18000 8 West-Indische Compagnie, share, 1792
  • 9 No. 36 - Feb. 2006 SPAIN € 7000 € 9600 9 Minas de Guadalcanal Votras & Co., share, 1725
  • 10 No. 35 - March 2005 SPAIN € 9000 € 9000 10 Real Co. de San Fernando de Sevilla, share issued to King Fernando VI, 1748
  • 11 No. 42 - March 2009 FRANCE € 4000 € 7000 11 Société de Draps Fins d'Abbeville, share, 1855
  • 12 No. 35 - March 2005 SPAIN € 4500 € 6700 12 Comercio de los Cinco Gremios Mayores de Madrid, share, 1773
  • 13 No. 40 - March 2008 RUSSIA € 5000 € 6600 13 City of Nikolaef, 4725 roubles bond, 1912
  • 14 No. 40 - March 2008 NETHERLANDS € 4000 € 6500 14 Veersche oester-Societeit, share, 1759
  • 15 No. 42 - March 2009 BELGIUM € 5000 € 6500 15 Banque Particuliere Bruxelles, share, 1784
  • 16 No. 42 - March 2009 SPAIN € 6000 € 6500 16 Minas de Guadalcanal, Cia, share, 1727
  • 17 No. 43 - Oct. 2009 UNITED STATES € 4000 € 6500 17 Zoological Society of Cincinnati, stock certificate, 1878
  • 18 No. 33 - March 2003 SPAIN € 6200 € 6200 18 Real Compania Guipuzcoana de Caracas, Spain, 1st issue share, 1730
  • 19 No. 36 - Feb. 2006 UNITED STATES € 5500 € 6100 19 Tontine Coffee-House (New York Stock Exchange building), 1793
  • 20 No. 42 - March 2009 FRANCE € 5000 € 6000 20 Mines de Fer de St. Etienne, share, 1826