A gold aureus of Severus Alexander showing the colosseum realized $800,000 in the Mellennia sale auctioned by Ira and Larry Goldberg May 26. The auction realized $23,024,765.00. The firm said this might be the highest single-day world coin auction total ever.

A gold aureus of Brutus realized $575,000.00. The coin was graded Choice AU by NGC.

The appreciation of world coins is finally realized in the above example.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm and is filed under Articles, Blog Entry, Coins & Currency. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

View all articles by acenh.

Want a picture icon with your comment? Sign up with Gravatar to get one, or connect with your Facebook or Twitter account.