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☆ Denmark: First set of coins from L.E. Bruun fetches $16.5M
  + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
On Tuesday, just under a year since the 100-year-old order expired, the first set of coins from Bruun’s personal 20,000-piece collection went up for auction in Copenhagen. Bruun Collection was insured for 500 million Danish kroner, or around $72.5 million. An exceptionally rare gold coin from 1496 smashed estimates to fetch a record 1.2 million euros ($1.34 million) at auction on Tuesday. Stack’s Bowers GalleriesThe auction house described it as the most valuable collection of world coins to ever come to market. The star lot was one of Scandinavia’s oldest gold coins, according to the catalog a noble of King Hans dated from 1496.
Persons: Lars Emil Bruun, Stack’s Bowers, Bruun, Brian Kendrella, few.But Bruun, King Frederik, ”, King Hans, “, Matt Orsini Organizations: CNN, Stack’s Bowers Galleries, Royal Danish, Danish Numismatic Society, “, Kalmar Union, Galleries Locations: Copenhagen, Akershus Castle, Oslo, Danish, Denmark, Norway, Sweden
☆ A single gold coin could fetch more than $1 million as ancient coin collection goes to auction after 100 years of secrecy
  + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
A historic gold coin will kick off the sale of one of the most valuable privately owned collections. The 1496 King Hans Gold Noble coin is part of the prized L.E. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementA rare Danish gold coin could fetch more than $1 million when it goes to auction next month, kicking off the sale of one of the most mysterious coin collections ever. The 1496 King Hans Gold Noble coin is part of the collection that once belonged to Danish businessman and butter tycoon Lars Emil Bruun.
Persons: Hans Gold Noble, Bruun, —, Lars Emil Bruun, Brunn Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Bruun's, Danish
☆ Archaeologists find well-preserved 500-year-old spices on Baltic shipwreck
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Tom Little | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Tom LittleLUND, Sweden, March 3 (Reuters) - Archaeologists say they have uncovered a "unique" cache of well-preserved spices, from strands of saffron to peppercorns and ginger, on the wreck of a royal ship that sunk off Sweden's Baltic coast more than 500 years ago. Rediscovered by sports divers in the 1960s, sporadic excavations of the ship have taken place in recent years. Now an excavation led by Brendan Foley, an archaeological scientist at Lund University, has found the spices buried in the silt of the boat. "The Baltic is strange - it's low oxygen, low temperature, low salinity, so many organic things are well preserved in the Baltic where they wouldn't be well preserved elsewhere in the world ocean system," said Foley. Lund University researcher Mikael Larsson, who has been studying the finds, said: "This is the only archaeological context where we've found saffron.
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