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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 935517, member: 19463&quot;]I think we agree that what makes the EID MAR expensive is not that there are &#039;only&#039; 50 (or 70???) of them but that there are hundreds of people who would like to own one because it is beyond special.&nbsp; For those that do not know the type it portrays Brutus the assassin of Julius Caesar and a Liberty cap flanked by two daggers with the legend EID MAR refering to the date (Ides of March) Caesar was killed.&nbsp; There are few coins that openly boast of murder but Brutus saw himself as a hero having freed Rome from the tyrant Caesar.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I might add that there are some people (a minority) that do not believe the type is genuine and consider all examples fabrications made to fool museums and collectors.&nbsp; I do not accept their arguments but I do not consider them fools either.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Almost any collector of ancient coins who specializes in a particular series will, in time, acquire coins that are otherwise unknown to students of the series.&nbsp; I have a couple.&nbsp; Add to that a couple more which are known by only two or three copies.&nbsp; Many collectors own coins that probably exit in fewer than 50 copies but will not sell for 1/100 of the price of an EID MAR.&nbsp; Do the math:&nbsp; Thousands want one of the fifty while only two people want the three of something else.&nbsp; I&#039;m a hard core collector and not an investor but I&#039;d still trade one of my &#039;only known&#039; coins for an EID MAR.&nbsp; I may be odd but I&#039;m not a complete fool.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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