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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Khaghogh, post: 8229263, member: 110084&quot;]Here&#039;s a new auction listing for an Eid Mar denarius with an interesting history:</p><p><a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/sovereignrarities/browse?a=2359&amp;l=2602647" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/sovereignrarities/browse?a=2359&amp;l=2602647" rel="nofollow">https://www.biddr.com/auctions/sovereignrarities/browse?a=2359&amp;l=2602647</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This group of Denarii was discovered on a beach in Joppa, Palestine in the mid-19th century. Having spent centuries exposed to saltwater the coins had toned to a deep black, and so the well-meaning finder plated each coin with silver and pierced them to create a necklace. Unfortunately – and somewhat ironically – it is Brutus’s coin that bears the most stab wounds.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This group is accompanied by copies of two letters, one dated 1948 from David Owen, then Director of the City Museum, Leeds, the other dated 1955 from Michael Grant, then President of the Royal Numismatic Society. Both deem the group of coins to be genuine, and the former expresses an interest in acquiring the coin.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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