Like Sleeping Beauty cursed to sleep for 100 years, a Danish coin collection decreed to be kept off the market for a century is finally going under the hammer late this year. Denmark's National Museum, exercising its right to first dibs, paid one million euros ($1.09 million) for seven of the collection's around 20,000 coins. "The level is extraordinary. The collection has become mythical. It's like the princess sleeping for 100 years," says Helle Horsnaes, head of the National Museum's coin and medallion collection. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES