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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 25522080, member: 44316&quot;]I once (many years ago) made an appointment to visit the ancient-coin collection of Washington University in St. Louis. The curator kindly showed it to me. Many coins were in flips in a safe, but some were in a hall display table below glass. Imagine a pile of Roman coins maybe 2-3 coins deep on a flat table four feet wide and two feet deep, below glass a few inches above them. In the pile I spotted about 50 Agrippa/Neptune asses. I asked if anything could be done about duplicates--like selling them--and he said, no, the bequest (from the early 1900&#039;s, I think) was on condition that nothing ever be sold, or else ownership would revert to his descendants. There were other onerous conditions, too, but the bequest was take it or leave it. They took it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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