And then things go fast. To the 4 tons, the 5 tons, and even 6 tons. “Nobody has more than 600,000 euros?” asks the auctioneer. There is also heavy bidding online. People in the room are filming. Anyone who is a fan of coins will want this quarter. The auction house’s coin book states that ‘the whole world’ is focused on the coin. Even the most famous coin collector of the last century, the then Egyptian king Farouk, was unable to obtain this quarter. So whoever could get their hands on it now must come from good houses.
This coin in IJsselstein has been sold for more than a million: ‘This is completely bizarre’
