Marble bust fetches $30m

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A marble Roman bust sold for an astonishing US$23.8 million ($30.1 million) at Sotheby's antiquities auction, soaring to nearly 10 times its pre-sale estimate at a sale that saw every item offered finding a buyer.

The "marble portrait bust of the deified Antinous, Roman imperial, reign of Hadrian", circa AD 130-138, was from the collection of the late Clarence Day.

Five bidders competed for the bust. The buyer was an unidentified European collector.