Stack’s Bowers Ponterio Hammers Highest-Grossing Auction Hosted Outside United States
Hong Kong-based auctions continue to attract tremendous enthusiasm and participation, as illustrated by their April 2021 event. Featuring over 5,100 lots of coins, tokens, medals, and currency, this monumental sale broke numerous records on its way to realizing a total of over $35.55 million, with 96% of the lots selling. With that impressive realization, the auction house has now conducted the highest-grossing auction hosted outside of the
United States, along with the second highest-grossing auction of non-U.S. coins regardless of location.
Setting the tone from the start was the rarity-filled
Pinnacle Collection, which contained five lots that realized at least $1 million, and two that surpassed the $2 million threshold. The firm’s previous record for million-dollar lots was the fabulous
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