These two coins might be of interest to our Ancient collectors here. The Brutus coin is a nice example and well centered. Cleopatra is a bit rough and for me un attributable. I would have to have NGC put it in plastic just for that reason. The Brutus in my opinion should be in some plastic as well. I got the auction notice through NumisBids, not my area of interest, but I wouldn't mind the Brutus just for bragging rights. https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&sid=6516
@Bing My ignorance with identifying Ancient coins is rather large. Just from looking at that coin, what insures you that it IS a Cleopatra coin?
Collecting sure would be a lot more fun if I had mountains of cash to throw around with reckless abandon. That'll probably never happen, but an entertaining thought exercise that I like to run is determining what my net worth would have to be before I spent... say, $500K on a coin? At a minimum, I'm thinking something like $10M.
Hi @tibor See https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=usd&order=0 - Broucheion
Yeah as much as I'd love to have that EID MAR denarius in my collection, I think I'd rather have a new house instead.
And you don't have to worry about the photos being stolen. Or dropping them in the dishwasher. Yes, just last night.
I just converted the Danish corona to U.S. dollars. It’s $392,000. Plus there are also the charges for converting dollars to corona and the shipping. That would set an all time record high for a single coin for me by a considerable margin, and that is just a minimum bid. I guess I’ll have to pass. Still it’s an interesting coin.
There would no "buts". The Saxony 20 Dukaten is much rarer/ 2 known perfect quality/ much more beautifull to look at. And its 45mm. 70g. .986 gold! If I won the "powerball" US lottery it would be my first on my list of "to gets".
