Coining it in. (auction of Bunker and Herbert Hunt ancient coins)

The Economist (US) | June 23, 1990 | Copyright

"I GUESS it first began with some cheap foreign coins our parents brought home from trips abroad", says Bunker Hunt, talking of his interest in collecting; That and a boyhood treasure of Indian head pennies." Back in the oil-boom days of the 1970s, before Colonel Qaddafi nationalised Bunker's oilfield and the silver market collapsed, he and his brother Herbert amassed a quarter-ton of ancient coins and some astonishing pieces of ancient art. These were put up for sale in New York on June 19th to appease he Internal Revenue Service and the Hunts' various creditors, and raised ...

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