After 100 years, a rare coin collection was sold for hundreds of billions of dong.

One gold coin in the collection dates from the late 15th century and features the image of a Danish king.

Photo: Stack's Bowers Galleries

A collection of rare Danish coins kept for 100 years according to the late owner's will was sold for more than 14.8 million euros (402.5 billion VND) by an auction house in Copenhagen on September 14.

After an eight-hour auction in the Danish capital by auction house Stack's Bowers, the 286 coins sold fetched 25 percent more than their original estimate, according to news agency Ritzau.

The auction is the first sale of some 20,000 coins from the Bruun collection, which have not been on the market for a century.

In 1922, Lars Emil Bruun, a Danish businessman and coin expert, purchased the collection from the aristocratic Bille-Brahe family. He died the following year, including a condition for the sale of the collection in his will.

"The story goes that Mr. Bruun, after witnessing the devastation of World War I, was very afraid that something would happen to the national collection (of the museum). Therefore, he made a will stating that his collection should be kept as a reserve for the national collection for 100 years after his death," according to Helle Horsnaes, curator of the coin and medal collection at the National Museum of Denmark.

The National Museum of Denmark, which had priority in the purchase under an agreement between Mr Bruun and the Bille-Brahe family, paid one million euros for seven coins from the collection.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/sau-100-nam-bo-suu-tap-dong-xu-hiem-duoc-ban-gia-hang-tram-ti-dong-185240915063314785.htm