Lars Emil Bruun said in his will that a 20,000-piece collection he built throughout his life must be safeguarded for 100 years. A century later, some of the stashed coins could fetch up to £800,000 alone.

A century after his death, the coin collection of a Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun will go on sale and could fetch up to US$72 million

A century after his death the coin collection of a Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun will go on sale and could fetch up to US72 million

A Danish butter magnate's collection of coins could fetch close to £60m on auction, a hundred years after he passed away.

One of the most valuable privately-owned coin collections is headed to auction later this year after spending more than a century shrouded in secrecy. The collection once belonged to Danish businessman and butter tycoon Lars Emil Bruun,

Danish businessman Lars Emil Bruun’s collection, valued at about $72 million, is one of the most important in the world, auction house Stack’s Bowers said.