https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/t...esar-assassination-coin-ides-of-march-brutus/ (Sorry if this is a repost) "The golden coin has resurfaced after being hidden away in a private collection – and is just one of three in the world."
Yes - see this link... auction on October 29th: https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=1300&l=1377214 $300K pounds ..just to open. ($388K USD)
Wow, and a very nice pic too for a newspaper! Usually coins that show up in the media are of awful quality. Anyway, only other ones I was aware of were the NFA and NAC Rasiel
Found? The owners knew about it all the time...just kept it to themselves..who knows where it hailed from and when...all in the name of numismatics. Maybe it was kept in the Amber room in their palace......
Out of my price range! j/k Beautiful coin though and truly fascinating that it's one of only three in the world! Whoever ends up with it must have a stunning collection!
That definitely does not look like a photo of a coin in slab. I honestly don't think a coin of that caliber would be treated with that kind of disrespect by a high end auctioneer like Roma. The slabbing must have taken place post-auction (just my guess). Rasiel
Hopefully a museum ends up buying and properly displaying it for all to see. May be controversial to say but this coin ending up in a private collection would be quite disappointing.
Disappointing why? In what way would it be better for the average person for it to be in a museum vs in private hands? If the BM or The Met were to acquire it chances are it'd join the thousands of other coins tucked away in storage like all but a token few others are. Once a coin goes into a national collection it's as if it was swallowed by a black hole for 99.9999% of the public. For what it's worth chances are this coin probably will eventually land in a national collection anyway as heirs to estates typically only care about the cash value and a donation of artworks often provides a very nice tax writeoff. Rasiel
It will end up in private hands or similar...Like Salvador Mundi in Dubai?...what institution has such deep pockets for such a tiny item of the sort that only we admire. All the important research has been done by the auctioneers-that is the important numismatical bit which was totally lacking from and by the international art-loving owners. Who knows maybe it was a form of international money laundering/ criminal insurance decades ago-that's why it was secret for so long-by people who should have known better.
The auction description mentions the NGC numbers, and the auction hasn't taken place yet. Doesn't NGC take photos before slabbing?
Not sure if they do, maybe in high-profile cases like this, but this is not the service you're paying for when you send it in. Rasiel
Slabbing-that is the least question about this genuine coin-surely? The eventually new owner will decide.
It was recently slabbed by NGC in advance of the next Roma sale: https://www.romanumismatics.com/221-lot-463-brutus-av-aureus ATB, Aidan.
We had the scoop about the aureus here on CoinTalk : https://www.cointalk.com/threads/eid-mar-chronicles.344603/page-2 See replies #34, 39, 41 and 59.
@Suarez When only 3 of a coin of such important historical significance exist, it’s in the public interest to be in an institution open to the public. Otherwise we may as well start auctioning off the Declaration of Independence or the Magna Carta. If a museum displays it and for some reason it generates absolutely zero interest from the “average person” then I suppose it wouldn’t be out of the question to put the coin up for auction to a collector, but honestly, do you really think it would be of no interest to the average person? I think that attitude comes across a little snobby. Certain things belong in a museum to be enjoyed by all.
