The Countship of Brahesminde Collection was one of the great Danish numismatic cabinets. The Countship of Brahesminde (Danish: Grevskabet Brahesminde) was a Danish feudal countship on the island of Funen, created on 9 May 1798 for the privy councilor and chamberlain Preben Bille-Brahe of Hvedholm, whose estates included Damsbo, Stensgård, and Østrupgård. It passed down through the Bille-Brahe and later Bille-Brahe-Selby family across the 19th and early 20th centuries before being dissolved in 1928, when Denmark abolished the lens system of entailed noble estates. Over those generations the counts assembled a substantial coin collection. The family cabinet was rich in Danish and Norwegian material, but also reaching into related areas like Swedish Pomerania. In 1922, shortly before his death, the Danish butter magnate and collector Lars Emil Bruun (1852–1923) acquired the entire Brahesminde cabinet through a private treaty. For Bruun this was the crowning acquisition of his collecting life. With the Brahesminde coins absorbed into his own holdings, he is said to have owned the finest collection of Danish and Norwegian coins in private hands, second only to the Danish state collection itself.