After 100 years, rare Danish coin collection up for auction

Denmark's National Museum, exercising its right to first dibs, paid one million euros ($1.09 million) for seven of the collection's around 20,000 coins. "The quality is extraordinary. The collection has become a thing of legend. It's like the princess had been sleeping for 100 years," Helle Horsnaes, head of the National Museum's coin and medallion collection, told AFP. In 1922, Lars Emil Bruun, a Danish entrepreneur and coin expert, bought the collection from the aristocratic Bille-Brahe family...