Sixbid
The widespread distribution of the new MünzenWoche is based on the latest technology and strong partners with a wide reach. The concept is that we at MünzenWoche mainly focus on the German domestic market, while bringing strong partners on board for foreign markets. Our first partner has been with us since the relaunch of MünzenWoche: Sixbid publishes all our numismatic articles in English and French.
Sixbid: The mother of all auction platforms
Sixbid was founded in 2001 by a group of innovative coin dealers. At a time when many still considered the internet to be a technology that would never be relevant to the coin trade, leading auction houses came together on the initiative of Dr. Hubert Lanz to develop a new form of bidding. Hence the name of the platform: Sixbid stands for the six different ways in which a collector can place their bids: in person, in writing, by telephone, via a dealer, via email, and via a central platform: Sixbid.
Sixbid was designed to be bilingual (German-English) from the outset and quickly established itself as the standard auction platform on the German and American markets. Since April 2022, the platform has been available in six additional languages: Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Sixbid is thus responding to globalization, particularly the ever-growing Asian market.
Over 1,000 auctions per year at Sixbid
Sixbid offers around 1 million lots from over 1,000 auctions per year, conducted by around 100 internationally renowned auction houses. The popularity of the platform is demonstrated by the fact that more than two million items are viewed on Sixbid by collectors worldwide every month(!). This means that Sixbid has 24 million page views per year. The average (!) time spent on the site by its users is between 8 and 9 minutes! The platform thus stands for the democratization of collecting, enabling customers from all over the world to bid at leading auction houses.
The Sixbid Collector’s Archive
Every coin collector knows how important it is not only to view current auctions, but also to check provenance and prices based on past auctions. Sixbid offers its registered bidders the Sixbid Coin Collector’s Archive, where all auction results since 2001 are available free of charge. The archive is an important tool for anyone who values transparency and wants to find out more about the coins they are bidding on.
The Classical Archive
The Sixbid Archive goes beyond the platform’s current database and actively digitizes old auction catalogs from the pre-digital era to make them available to users via a subscription system. These old auction catalogs are particularly important for provenance questions. Anyone looking for provenance usually has to laboriously search through old catalogs to find it. Thanks to the Sixbid Archive, this will be possible in a matter of seconds in the future.
The Sixbid Blog
Sixbid has been running its own blog since July 2025. Since September 15, 2025, articles from MünzenWoche have been published regularly in English and French on the English and French blogs, making them available not only to CoinsWeekly users via the biweekly newsletter, but also to Sixbid users.
Why Sixbid?
Both MünzenWoche and Sixbid are companies that focus on international cooperation. Both see themselves as pioneers who anticipate developments in the coin market and drive them forward through new technologies and new forms of content delivery. The focus is not exclusively on profit, but on expanding and promoting the coin market.
That is why an agreement was quickly reached on how to work more closely together in the future. MünzenWoche is delighted to have found a partner that will increase visitor numbers in the long term.
A historical fun fact
Would you like to know why it was a German company that developed the first numismatic auction platform and not the technology-savvy United States? To understand this, you have to go back to a time when the internet did not yet exist. Back then, high-quality coins fetched top prices at specific auctions. These auctions were held as part of the American coin exchanges, NYINC and ANA. Buying a “time slot” for an auction was extremely expensive at the time, and slots were only available in limited numbers. That’s why several European auction houses joined forces to purchase a slot. For those who participated in these auctions, the results were very satisfactory.
In Germany, long before the advent of the internet, some auction houses had learned that it could be worthwhile to work together to present their own goods to a larger customer base. The founding of Sixbid overcame the monopolization of individual customer files. Whereas customer files used to be traded for immense sums, it has now become easier for young coin dealers to set up their own coin businesses.
Few innovations in numismatics have influenced the coin trade as much as the Sixbid platform. In China, copying a successful model is considered the greatest compliment of all. Looking at the many auction platforms based on the Sixbid model, it is safe to say that Sixbid enjoys the highest reputation worldwide.
Text and images: Ursula Kampmann
