The Michael Gietzelt Collection of British and Irish Milled Coins
Michael Gietzelt
Michael Gietzelt was born in Berlin in 1954, the son of a doctor. Educated at Berlin Secondary School, he performed his military service in the DGR Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Sergeant, before entering Berlin University to study medicine in 1975. Within two years he had decided that medicine was not the career choice for him and he opened his antique shop on the Frankfurter-Alle in Berlin in 1977.
Encouraged by his Mother, who made him a present of some worn Victorian pennies, and his great-grandfather, who gave him his first serious coin, an 1887 five-pound piece, Michael’s collection has expanded – not just into British coins, but also into all other spheres of British numismatics, including orders, decorations, medals and paper money. From the outset Michael’s aim has been to form a type collection of British coins from Edward III to the present day, but with the dispersal of his milled coins his coin collecting focus will now be on the hammered series, including Scottish and Irish issues, while maintaining his collections of coins and tokens of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Together with his wife Gisela, Michael also collects German porcelain, particularly Meissen, while their busy home life revolves around their five children and ten grandchildren.
Collection Information
This collection was sold on 14 November 2018.
Other Collections Sold in 2018
- Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
- A Good Group of Specimen Banknotes
- A Group of Banknotes of Iran, the Property of a Gentleman
- British Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Jeffrey Gardiner
- Banknotes of South Africa, the Property of a Gentleman
- A Collection of Gallantry Awards to the South Wales Borderers
- Anglo-Gallic Coins from the Collection of the late Tony Merson
- British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts
- The Collection of Irish Ten-Shilling Notes, 1928-68, formed by the late Anthony Lenny
- The Collection of Yorkshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Christopher Street
- Coins and Medals of Malta, the Property of an Officer Brother of the Order of St John
- A Collection of Medals to the 3rd King’s Own Light Dragoons
- The McAlister and Bassage Family Medals
- A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties
- A Collection of Long Service Medals to the Essex Regiment formed by Ian Miller
- A Fine Collection of Cavalry Badges
- A Collection of Medals to the 42nd Highlanders and 73rd Foot (Black Watch)
- The Personal Archive of Louis Osman, Goldsmith and Architect
- Medals relating to the Malaya and Korea Campaigns from the Philip Burman Collection
- A Collection of Police Medals
- A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Imperial Yeomanry
- A Collection of British Coins, the Property of a Gentleman
- The Collection of Irish Gunmoney formed by Barry Allen
- Irish Pennies of Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III from the Collection of O. Mac Conamhna
- The Collection of Lincolnshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Christopher Street
- A Collection of 18th Century Tokens and Medals, the Property of a Gentleman
- Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
- A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to Colonial Units
- A Group of Pattern and Specimen Waterloo Medals
- A Collection of Indian Medals
- The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins
- British Copper Coins from the Collection Formed by the Late George Bates
- Milled Coins of Elizabeth I from the Collection Formed by Walter Wilkinson
- The Collection of Greek Coins Formed by the Late Ray Inder
- World Coins from the Collection of the Late John Phillimore
- A Private Collection of Post Medieval Gold Jewellery Discovered in Jamaica, West Indies
- A Collection of Second Afghan War Medals
- A Collection of Queen’s and Khedive’s Sudan Medals
- Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
- 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Iain Thomson
- The Michael Gietzelt Collection of British and Irish Milled Coins
- The Collection of British Tokens formed by the late Sven Gahlin
- A Collection of High Grade Gold Coins of the United States of America
- A Collection of Short Cross and Long Cross Pennies
- Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset
- A Collection of Abyssinia Medals
- A Collection of Medals for the South Atlantic Campaign 1982
- The ‘Welsh Marches’ Collection of British Coins
- A Collection of British Milled Coins, the Property of a Gentleman
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