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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2744351, member: 82549&quot;]I think the question of fake art is fascinating. Say you buy a Rauschenberg or a Frankenthaler for millions of dollars. Then some expert says that it&#039;s a fake, and suddenly it&#039;s about worth $20 or so. It&#039;s still the exact same painting. In theory, we buy a work of art because of aesthetics, because of how it looks or the emotions that it evokes in us. Yet the painting or sculpture or whatever in question looks exactly the same as it did before that expert spoke. Maybe it&#039;s the emotions associated with the object that has change, but that doesn&#039;t speak particularly well of those emotions that inspired us to pay those initial millions.</p><p><br /></p><p>With ancient coins it&#039;s a little different. My scratched and worn old Mark Anthony denarius</p><p><img src="http://feltemp.com/Images/Beginnings/MarkAnthony.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>is not particularly aesthetically pleasing, but it was minted by someone traveling with Mark Anthony during his lifetime. My he even held it at one time. Maybe Cleopatra said &quot;Hey Markie Snoogums, you dropped this.&quot; If this coin were shown to be a fake, all that history would evaporate, and I would have about $4 worth of silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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