A huge collection of historic gold coins, recovered from the wall of a house in France after their owner passed away, has been sold for millions of euros at auction. <\/p>\n
The coins were collected by Paul Narce, who lived in a small village in south-west France until his death in 2024, according to Beaussant Lef\u00e8vre and Associates. <\/p>\n
\u201cNarce, who lived a modest life and didn\u2019t see a lot of the world, spent all of his money on his collection,\u201d said coin expert Thierry Parsy in a statement previewing the sale. <\/p>\n
Over the years, he built up a collection of gold coins \u201cexceptional both in number, with more than 1,000 pieces, as well as the rarities it contains,\u201d said Parsy. <\/p>\n
Many of the coins date back centuries, according to Parsy. <\/p>\n
Among them are ancient coins from the Kingdom of Macedonia, dating to 336-323 BC, as well as almost complete series of coins used during the reigns of French Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. <\/p>\n
Narce had no direct descendants and only a few people knew of his hobby. <\/p>\n
However, no one knew where he kept his collection, which \u201ccould have remained undiscovered forever,\u201d said Parsy, were it not for a notary who set out to find the coins in the house, which had been empty since Narce moved into a care home a year before he died. <\/p>\n
The notary eventually found the coins in a small space in the wall, hidden behind a painting in a store room. <\/p>\n
In addition to the carefully labelled collection, the notary also found 10 packages, each containing 172 gold 20 franc coins, equivalent to an ingot of gold. <\/p>\n
The final sale far exceeded the pre-auction estimate of 2 million euros ($2.43 million). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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