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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2803917, member: 83956&quot;][ATTACH=full]654391[/ATTACH]There are a lot of ways we can measure the value of an ancient coin. I would like to suggest a concept that&#039;s common but, to my knowledge, doesn&#039;t really have a name:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Showability</b>: <i>An intangible, abstract property of a coin or its ownership context that occasions its display and discussion. May be different from&nbsp; aesthetic quality or monetary worth. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>For example, I have more valuable and aesthetically pleasing coins in my collection than this Agrippa as. But because I teach the Aeneid almost every semester and discuss the age of Augustus and the Battle of Actium, I probably show this coin* more than any other.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me posit another example-- this one hypothetical. Deacon Ray might have a $500,000 Brutus Ides Mar denarius in his cabinet. But because he&#039;s a minister, he might show a $20 widow&#039;s mite ten times more often than that denarius. So on the showability scale, widow&#039;s mite &gt; Brutus denarius. </p><p><br /></p><p>So what is your most &quot;showable&quot; coin, and why? What coin do you find yourself displaying and discussing more than any other?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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