Unabashed gold bugs that we are, we’d like to see a piece of King Tut’s gold treasure fall into Canadian hands. Is there a private collector out there with (probably), several hundred thousand dollars to spare?
Seems that sometime next month (it would make a fine Christmas acquisition), a London, England, auction house will be selling off a decorated sheet of pure gold from Tutankhamen’s tomb, and the successful buyer would end up owning the only item of the King’s treasure in private hands. The rest of it is jealously retained and guarded by the government of Egypt itself.
It’s not a big gold piece, measuring about nine by three inches, and with an unspecified thickness, but at the present price of gold it would certainly qualify for a pretty big buck just on the gold content alone, not even considering its collector’s value as a rare item from one of the world’s most esteemed treasures.
According to a consultant for the London auction house, the sheet should fetch anywhere from $50,000 to $150,000. We’re willing to bet it’ll do much better than that. We don’t want Tut rolling over in his shroud.
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