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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 2071140, member: 39084&quot;]This is certainly an, ahem, <i>unusual</i> way of displaying this fairly high quality collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]383462[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]383463[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Their own description:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The coins are mounted in a matching pair of nineteenth-century gold bracelets that are also decorated with oblong amethysts en cabochon. The jewelry was inspired by the early second-century A.D. writer Suetonius&#039; biographies of the first twelve rulers of imperial Rome, which started with Julius Caesar and ended with Domitian. One bracelet contains aurei of the dictator Julius Caesar and the Julio-Claudian emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, the other has coins of the emperors of the civil war in A.D. 69—Galba, Otho, and Vitellius—and the Flavian emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Metropolitan Museum of Art</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1967</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose if you wanted to impress your friends with two of the world&#039;s most valuable gold bracelets, this would be one way to do so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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