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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2735546, member: 19463&quot;]Urban myth:&nbsp; The unusual thing is for a very wealthy person wanting coins rather than paintings (Van Gogh and better?) or the like.&nbsp; In his book,<b> Fun While it Lasted</b>,&nbsp; Bruce McNall related the story of a question asked by the Hunt brothers (the ones who tried to corner the silver market).&nbsp; Having seen a Byzantine gold coin, they wanted to know how much it would cost to buy them all.&nbsp; They were not asking about a complete set; they meant &#039;<u>them all</u>&#039;.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t know how that story ends, research it.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Bunker_Hunt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Bunker_Hunt" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Bunker_Hunt</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I find it interesting that the Wikipedia piece on McNall only mentions coins as a &#039;claimed&#039; beginning to his story.&nbsp; Time has destroyed the tale.&nbsp; I used to live for the arrival of McNall&#039;s Numismatic Fine Arts catalogs.&nbsp; Now they don&#039;t even make the text of Wiki. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McNall" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McNall" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McNall</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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