Ex Collection Wassermann.
This piece was originally purchased in July 1932 from Julius Jenke in Munich.

This, the first Albanian bank note was printed in Italy in connection with the founding of the Albanian Central Bank 1926, that had its seat in Rome and not in Tirana. Because President Achmed Zogu absolutely depended on the loyalty of the local Albanian tribal leaders in order to guarantee the stability of the young state of Albania, he did not dare to duly participate the large landowners in the financial budget by means of a new tax system. He needed to cover the financial needs of Albania by means of foreign credits, especially from Italy. That the major creditors of the central bank were above all the Fascist controlled Italian Foreign Exchange Department, was hardly known to the Albanians.
Not only that 4/5 of Albania's exports were delivered to Italy across the Adriatic Sea, the Mussolini government also obtained the rights to prospect for oil in the small country and was also responsible for the military safety. One can speak of an extreme dependancy.
In course, the printing of the bank note lay in the competence of the Italians and this explains the concise arms with the eagle on the obverse of the bank note. Shortly after the issue of the 1 Frank Ar note, President Zogu was informed of the aspect that the conspicuous emblem on the bank note, the Roman eagle as symbol, prominently represented faschist Italy. It is recorded that the indignant Zogu immediately ordered the bank note out of circulation.
According to the figures of the Albanian Central Bank this order was carried out quickly and thoroughly. While 113'000 such notes were in circulation in January 1927, only 6'000 notes were in circulation at the end of the year. And probably the figure grew even smaller in short time. The withdrawn notes were probably immediately destroyed. These circumstances explain why the first bank note of Albania is so extremely rare.

The reverse shows a ship before Fort Christiansborg in the present day city of Accra, capital of Ghana. The fort had a history of diverse owners. It changed hands from Portuguese to Swedish to native to Danish and to British ownership. Finally it became part of independent Ghana's capital - Accra.
Even though these ship ducats were often made of gold mined or bought in Guinea, it is not possible to ascertain whether this issue was struck from African gold or from gold held in the Copenhagen mint.

Numismatic literature contains every now and then the description of a coin taken over from old sources. However there are no known examples to be found - reported but not confirmed. In Imhof (Collection of a Nürnberg Coin Cabinet 1780-1782), a Reichsguldiner of 1595 is described. This coin was in no museum, in no other collection, and not in the trade until it turned up in the Auction Gradl 59, Nürnberg.
It is possible to set up the assumption that it is a sort of pattern, perhaps for a hoped-for imperial visit. In any case it is a unique piece and a numismatic object of the first order.

Ex auction Riechmann V, 135. (660 Mk).
Ex auction Helbing February 1925, 1141 (1275 Mk).
Ex auction Vogel I, Hess, 28.11.1927, 2766 (800 Mk).
Ex auction Muenzcabinet Cologne Kroha 36, Cologne 1984, Nr. 726.
Ex auction Künker 170, Osnabrueck 2010, 4535.

This ist the rarest type of the German imperial gold coinage.

This medal was awarded to the so far most successful Swiss artistic gymnast Eugen Mack (21.9.1907-29.10.1978). In all he was awarded nine Olympic medals:
In the IX. Summer Olympiad in Amsterdam 1928 he won three medals: gold for the vault jump, gold for the artistic gymnastics all-around team and bronze on the horizontal bar.
At the XI. Summer Olympiad in Berlin 1936 he won four silver medals: all-around individual, parallel bars, all-around team and vault jump (this medal), as well as a bronze medal in floor exercise.
At the XIV. Summer Olympiad in London 1948 he brought a silver medal home as team chief. At the Gymnast-World Championships 1934 in Budapest, he was the most successful athlete with five gold and two silver medals.
At the Gymnast-World Championships of 1938 in Prague he became world champion in the vault, second in floor exercise and third in multidiscipline.
With the team he also gained the silver medal.
In 1999 Eugen Mack was admitted to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame posthumously.
For more concerning Eugen Mack see Auction 25, Lot Nr. 2111 und Auction 26, Lot Nr. 3987ff.

The mintage amounted to only 300, 321, 558 and 597 specimens.