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Künker Summer Auction Features First Danish Portrait Coin

IN OUR FOURTH installment of the Industry Insider: COVID Business Landscape series, which can be read online at numismaticnews.com , we contacted Ulrich Künker, general manager at Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, headquartered in Osnabrück, Germany. Künker told us they were adjusting to the changes brought on by the pandemic very well and were looking forward to their Auctions 337 and 338 set for the end of June.

In Künker’s words, “The most exciting event will be our June sale which will be hopefully conducted as a regular public sale in the close-by Hotel named Remarque Hotel. The only changes are we won’t have viewing in the hotel as we need the space to be able to conduct the sale with the obliged distance concept. We will have no more than one person per 10 square meters in the Auction room. That limits us to 40 customers on the floor. Of course that doesn’t restrict the number of visitors in total. It only limits the amount of people in the auction room. As we will hold the sale in the summer, our guests are free to wait on the terrace of the hotel for the requested lots. Online Live bidding will also be available and we will, of course, offer

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