
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200435
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

HUNTS' COLLECTION SOLD TO SETTLE DEBTS

A 2,500-year-old Greek vase and two ancient silver coins brought record prices at a court-ordered auction of antiquities owned by the one-time billionaire Hunt brothers.

The 18-inch-tall vase from about 510 B.C. sold for $1.76 million Tuesday at Sotheby's. The old record for an ancient vase sold at auction was $493,000.

Nelson Bunker Hunt and brother William Herbert Hunt, heirs to an oil fortune, lost more than $1.5 billion in an alleged attempt to corner the silver market a decade ago and sought bankruptcy reorganization.

The Dallas businessmen were ordered to sell off their possessions to pay their creditors, the biggest of which is the Internal Revenue Service.

-Associated Press

by CNB