Dinosaur fossils have become a high-end collectibles market, with auction prices reaching tens of millions of dollars. The attempted sale of Shen, a rare T. Rex planned for auction at Christie’s, shows how questions around original bone, replica casts and disclosure are testing a market where value can depend on what is real, what is reconstructed and who gets to decide.
THE BONE RUSH: https://bloom.bg/4fcyevG
Dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires. And the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. rex.
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