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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8277875, member: 19463&quot;]I wish I had known. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; If I were a bettor I would have lost in the belief that I was the only one here who collects moss.&nbsp; Now that I am not buying coins very often I am spending more time and money on things like film for my digital camera and model fees from my friends in the yard.&nbsp; This moss was from this week.&nbsp; We have several species that will do better when we kill all that nasty old grass.&nbsp; If I remember, tomorrow I will take some with a coin in it for scale. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461725[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1461726[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It bothers me a bit that a coin this popular usually gets discussed with regards to how much it cost and how high it graded.&nbsp; I have a question I have not seen discussed.&nbsp; The two daggars have very different handles.&nbsp; Is this in some way significant.&nbsp; Was Brutus known as a user of a certain style blade?&nbsp; Does anyone care?&nbsp; Don&#039;t answer that.&nbsp; Today I watched the latest Aaron Berk podcast (#8) where he mentioned and showed more about EID MAR coins than I had seen before in one place.&nbsp; He even showed a fourree and mentioned the possibility that some (not all but not none as per Crawford) might have been issued by Brutus the cheapskate.&nbsp; The one he showed did not strike me as a certainly official style (I&#039;d call it an ancient counterfeit but what do I know?). The point is that there are many fourree coins from this period that could be &#039;official&#039; and MUCH more study is needed beyond knowing what to bid when one is sold.&nbsp; He showed the bracelet made from really low end but rare coins including what might just be the worst known EID MAR.&nbsp; I mentioned taking a denarius to a show so people could touch it.&nbsp; I have no desire to touch an EID MAR (or other coins I don&#039;t plan to buy unless I am photographing them) but I would like to see shows return to the place in my life that they occupied 20-30 years ago.&nbsp; I am discovering that I can appreciate coins I will not be buying more easily now that I am not buying coins as a major part of my existence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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