Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 2406. Estimate $30.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $40. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Helbing, O., Nachf. Griechische, Römische Münzen, Mittelalters und Neuzeit, Ehrenzeichen (Hauptmann). (Munich). No. 49. 22 March 1926 et seq. 3764 lots, 67 photographic plates. Ancients of average quality, broad selection of European talers, medals and decorations. Later black cloth covers, original printed and embossed card covers bound in. Very Fine condition.

Otto Helbing founded his coin firm in 1878, holding his first public auction ten years later. After his death in 1911, Heinrich Hirsch continued in operation, with the assistance of his nephew Gerhard, who later worked out of Prague in the 1930’s. Helbing would become Kress in 1939, but in 1953 Gerhard Hirsch, after a dramatic journey that would include stops at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, initiated the Hirsch numismatic firm in Munich.