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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 7583026, member: 99554&quot;]A neurologist who died from Covid-19 left his family a sports card collection worth $20 million. For over four decades, the doctor from Florida avidly collected baseball cards and sports memorabilia with some items dating back to the 1880s. Now, his collection, which is valued at $20 million, is going up for auction. </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/us/newman-baseball-collection-auction-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/us/newman-baseball-collection-auction-trnd/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/us/newman-baseball-collection-auction-trnd/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious to know if you already took some &quot;arrangements&quot; about your coins&#039; collection in the event of your death. Or maybe you just want your family to liquidate it in a big <i>yard sale </i>? <b>Please give me your answer about this question.</b></p><p>In conclusion, I&#039;ll post a coin of one of the most ancient coins collector. It was a tradition in ancient Rome and Greece to offer coins as gift during some festivities.Ovid, a roman poet who was a contemporary of the first emperor of Rome, reported in his writings that <b>Augustus</b> perpetuated such a custom. The historian Suetonius recorded the same thing about him : « <i>On the Saturnalia, and at any other time when he took it into his head, he would now give gifts of clothing or gold and silver :again coins of every device, including old pieces of the kings and foreign money</i> ». The story doesn&#039;t tell what happened to his collection when he died...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1306745[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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