2023-10-21 20:33:31
This week at the Drouot hotel in Paris, Barry was the star of the sale, says Release. Barry is therefore this camptosaur estimated between 800,000 and 1.2 million euros. Five meters long, the dinosaur was sold in two minutes to an American. With costs, he will have to pay around 932,000 euros.
Barry returns home ????
This 150 million year old Camptosaurus discovered in Wyoming was sold for €932,000 to an American individual. It was offered for sale this October 20 by @BGiquello at the Hôtel Drouot ????
So long Barry ???? pic.twitter.com/Fgz47SkHwz
— Drouot (@Drouot) October 20, 2023
“there are not really any dinosaur collectors, it is often patronage: the purchases are offered to museums, which unfortunately do not have the means to be present in these rooms,” confided Alexandre Giquello, curator -auctioneer and owner of the auction house of the same name, before the sale.
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