Coin Collection to be Sold 100 Years after Owner’s Death — VOA Learning English
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A Danish businessman’s large coin collection is set to go on sale one hundred years after his death. The collection could be worth up to $72 million.
Lars Emil Bruun directed lawyers what to do with the coin collection after his death in a legal document called a will. In it, Bruun required that his collection of about 20,000 coins be kept safe for 100 years before being sold. Deeply moved by the destruction of World War I and fearing another war, Bruun wanted the collection to be a reserve for Denmark.
Now, over a hundred years since Bruun’s death at the age of 71 in 1923, the collection will begin to be sold.
New York-based Stack’s Bowers, a rare coin auction house, will begin selling the…
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