NUMISMÁTICA
Mais valiosa coleção de numismática chega ao mercado
April 25, 2024 - Num aguardado evento com um século de preparação, o extraordinário tesouro de numismática escandinava do industrial dinamarquêst Lars Emil Bruun, avaliado em $72,5 milhões, vai ser vendido numa série de leilões.
Lars Emil Bruun left behind a will in which his descendants had to wait 100 years for the vast inheritance. Now, the wait is almost over.
With the autumn of 2024 on the horizon, the renowned coin auction house and dealer Stack’s Bowers is preparing to unveil the highly anticipated 20,000-piece collection of Scandinavian coinage at a public auction.
“When I first heard about the collection a couple years back,” says Vicken Yegparian, the company’s vice president for numismatics, “I was flabbergasted that something like this could exist.”
“You’ve got Denmark, Norway, Sweden and then places that used to be under Danish or Norwegian or Swedish rule,” Yegparian told Bloomberg. “There’s a huge run of coins from King Canute of England,” Yegparian added.
Following World War I, Bruun made his collection as a backup to the Royal Danish Collection of Coins and Medals, “as a redundancy and a protection against something happening to the existing collection,” says Brian Kendrella, president of Stack’s Bowers.
The collection is insured for 500 million Danish kroner ($72.5 million), “in this case, everything that we’ve done so far supports that amount as a pretty reasonable valuation,” Kendrella says.