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Posted 09/15/2025 3:12 pm
Seeing the Cepelia logo brings back memories of my first trip to Poland in the Communist era. Their products showed up a lot in the high end tourist shops. Here is their story: https://culture.pl/en/article/cepel...polish-homes
If the coins on the second box are real (I supect they are replicas), it's at least $25,000 if they werent glued. The two Wladyslaw IV thalers are around $3,000 each. The Courland thaler (reverse at lower left, obverse farther to right on same row) $1000 - 1500.
That's another feature that makes me think they are replicas. 8 of the coins on that second box are (or appear to be) obverse-reverse pairs (the Wladyslaw IV thaler, the Courland thaler, the Augustus III thaler and the Stanislaw thaler). Hard to beleive that someone had not one, but 2 of each of those to glue to a box.
BUT ... as I understand it, there was no real retail numismatic market in pre-1990 Poland for historic coins like these. Maybe the best someone could do if they were in a tight spot and needed to raise some cash was make them into a pricey piece of folk art?
If the coins on the second box are real (I supect they are replicas), it's at least $25,000 if they werent glued. The two Wladyslaw IV thalers are around $3,000 each. The Courland thaler (reverse at lower left, obverse farther to right on same row) $1000 - 1500.
That's another feature that makes me think they are replicas. 8 of the coins on that second box are (or appear to be) obverse-reverse pairs (the Wladyslaw IV thaler, the Courland thaler, the Augustus III thaler and the Stanislaw thaler). Hard to beleive that someone had not one, but 2 of each of those to glue to a box.
BUT ... as I understand it, there was no real retail numismatic market in pre-1990 Poland for historic coins like these. Maybe the best someone could do if they were in a tight spot and needed to raise some cash was make them into a pricey piece of folk art?
Edited by tdziemia
09/16/2025 09:26 am
09/16/2025 09:26 am
