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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4864277, member: 19463"]The old saying is that if you have to ask, you can't afford it. I am sure that the coin will sell to someone for whom $5 million is like $5000 is for most of us and I would not be surprised if it ended up 'on loan' to major museum. The write up for the lot even addresses the progress of some of the marks which makes it a good thing that they used the denarius dies. Were the aureus dies different, the process of authentication would have been harder. I would love to know how many aurei were made in the first place and to what use they were put. I could see a small issue with one each going to VIP's of the faction. Lets spread the rumor that Brutus himself presented the coin to a galley captain just before both of them were eliminated. That should guarantee the $5 million number.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I found a coin like that in my attic, you would never know for at least a few generations. The provenance is worth as much as the coin. Without it, I would think, at least two countries would already have sued for repatriation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4864277, member: 19463"]The old saying is that if you have to ask, you can't afford it. I am sure that the coin will sell to someone for whom $5 million is like $5000 is for most of us and I would not be surprised if it ended up 'on loan' to major museum. The write up for the lot even addresses the progress of some of the marks which makes it a good thing that they used the denarius dies. Were the aureus dies different, the process of authentication would have been harder. I would love to know how many aurei were made in the first place and to what use they were put. I could see a small issue with one each going to VIP's of the faction. Lets spread the rumor that Brutus himself presented the coin to a galley captain just before both of them were eliminated. That should guarantee the $5 million number. If I found a coin like that in my attic, you would never know for at least a few generations. The provenance is worth as much as the coin. Without it, I would think, at least two countries would already have sued for repatriation.[/QUOTE]
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