Someone put a Hole in this Coin - now it's worth Millions (the EID MAR aureus)
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- The famous EID MAR aureus, issued by Brutus to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:24 The values of ancient coins
1:17 Rarity
2:05 Beauty
4:15 Masterworks
5:49 Historical significance
7:11 The EID MAR aureus
8:52 Thinking about value
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Keep going, my brother
Excellent work
Id love to see a Collaboration video of you and Mark Felton. You both produce excellent content and never miss a chance to go into detail.
It's super annoying that when I try to click on "read more" it takes me to the link for a website!!! Please please fix this.
What did it sell for?
@Lord Muck with pure silver and gold it isn't necessary.
It’s crazy to consider that there’s a solid chance Brutus himself held that coin. There had to have been relatively few gold ones that were probably issued personally.
Yeah they are almost more like a medal of loyalty than a coin!
If we assume he gave his centurions one each, then maybe we can guestimate how many were made?
Or his co conspirators
We know one thing for sure; Julius Caesar never held it.
If anything, perhaps he ran his hands through a bowl of them freshly minted, brought to be seen before being accepted and sent out to supporters and those that they wished to be.
@@barath4545 the math for number of centurions is easy to calculate, 9 cohorts of 6 six centuries and one of 12. 66 centurions per legion, brutus and the liberators had 17 legions at the battle of phillipi. That's 1122, but if it's being given to centurions then it'll be given to all of the other officers senior to them as well. But there is absolutely nothing to suggest that this is the number of coins minted, baseless speculation.
The gold Eid Mar coin ended up selling for 2,200,000 CHF plus buyer's premium. That's equivalent to $2,285,000 USD or 2,145,000 Euro.
Thanks I was looking for how much it sold for. What is crazy is you could own 600 acres of land in the midwest for that much money!
@@bowhunter8532 Midwest land, or a piece of history?!
I’d go with the coin
@@tacodias So you rather have a coin that you occasionally look at rather than a few hundred acres where you can fish, camp, raise crops or livestock, generate income, and recreate with your family? Not to mention pass it down generations. To each their own I guess.
@@bowhunter8532 yes, it’s a long flight to the Midwest and I have no interesting in moving to the US!
I’d rather have a piece of celebration of one of the most relevant history moments in my nightstand and handing it down to my kids!
Now that's a lot of coins...
Personally i think collecting coins is one of the most interesting and satisfying passions one can pursue. not for their rarity or monetary value, but the feeling and sensations you receive, knowing you're holding an ancient object that an uncountable amount of people held in their hands before you. Among them, kings, queens, soldiers and poor farmers across the ages. The thought that a coin i can call my own today might have actually been in the hands of a historical figure of the hellenistic or roman era is one of the most satisfying feeling i can experience. Not only that, but also as a person with great interest in history a coin gives you the opportunity to do research and learn where each coin was minted and what is depicted and WHY certain things are depicted. On top its a great passion to share with you kids when they're the right age.
Yet ugly hand axes from the paleolithic can be had on Ebay for relatively cheap prices.
Where do you get your coins? This video has sparked my interest.
@@_geo.rge.303_8 May I suggest you start with some research. Not the boring kind, but the kind that you find fascinating, or interesting, or for whatever reason floats your boat. You also must decide how you're going to collect. Is it for investment? Is it for passion? Ancient coins? Modern?
There are many ways to collect coins. Browse eBay or the internet in general and find what gives you that...special feeling. You will know it when you feel it after spotting that one piece that's a "must have" for your personal collection.
It's the same idea with the very highest variations of the Iron Cross during WW2 (also very rare). Hitler personally awarded those, so one knows that he once held that award.
@@Lerxstification yeah i wouldn't be too fond owning one of those.. i actually have one, but from WW1.
Wow…can you imagine holding something like the EID MAR in your hand, that could had been held in the same hand that held the knife that killed Julius Caesar? That’s truly amazing!!
Yer...woopdi Doo
Wow that EID MAR aureus is incredible, thank you for sharing this with us!
Props to the people allowing you to share these coins with us. At the end you perfectly described one of the thrills of being a collector.
a very kind gesture
You said what ive said prob a thousand times... The ability to Hold in your hand something So Ancient, the history, the People and all what transpired during the time it was minted is what gets me buying ancient coins .. Not only do they tell a story by whats printed on the coins but they open up a path to go down and learn More . That is my sole reason to collect . The history and the Story . Thank you for educating me a bit more and showing these amazing examples . Cheers .
I'm considering buying my first coin for that reason, Fetus.
No kidding!!
As someone with experience and for so eloquently summarizing the exact reason I’d love to acquire a Roman coin, any recommendations on where to get one? I’ve done research myself previously and it seems a bit hit and miss and I’m definitely not trying to get scammed. I don’t necessarily even want anything crazy expensive, just something genuine to, as you put it, hold a piece of history in my hand. Thank you for any advice!
This Most expensive Rare Coin Worth millions?😂 well, be carefull as lots of very well Made fakes sold as original Coins
I restore and sell ancient Roman coins and small artifacts for a living
Amazing that it still exists in such fantastic condition.
That's the magic of prescious metals.
You should check out other ancient coins, they are 2000 year old history and art!!I bought a few silver ones today from auction and they are so amazing
Ancient societies were surprisingly monetized. A LOT of coins are out there!
@@ClassicalNumismatics I feel connected to my ancestors when I get handed a huge pile of coins at work and have to weigh them.
That's exactly the reason why they're in gold: it won't chemically react with humidity etc. in the soil
"The idea of possessing a direct connection in the ancient world, something you can touch, and through it touch every hand that held it before."
Yes! While attending a seminar on Israeli history and ancient scriptural lexical-syntactical analysis. On each table there were small pottery pieces from around the time of 1st Century Israel, perhaps some pieces were even older. Mini games and quizzes were done at the end of the seminar and those who won got to pick a piece from the table where they sat. I happen to win and picked a unique piece that had a partial handle attached. I had been eyeing this piece all week and marveling at the indentation the potter had left where the handle was pressed into the jar to attach. In that minor indentation was a large to what I believe is the man or woman's thumb print from sometime around 2,000 years ago. I keep it in my desk and every now and then pull it out and put my thumb into the indentation and just marvel what that persons life was like and who they were.
I am not a coin collector. Hell, I'm not even interested in coin collecting but I love these videos. I can see why people value something that is relatively unique and has such a rich history.
@@guyfaux5010 cry about it
@@guyfaux5010 yeah we can already tell by the guy fawkes pfp that you're a manchild edgelord, no need to hammer on about it
@@guyfaux5010 There's something neat about holding something like that in your hands. And as toldinstone said, most ancient coins aren't that expensive.
@@guyfaux5010 Actually, a good chunk of collectors in any collector market are buying these as an investment, to be sold later for a profit...
You should be...Even if regular generic gold rounds, they hedge against inflation...(As the purchasing power of paper $ decreases, gold doesn't...
Awesome video Garrett! As for the coins rarity, I had read that after Cassius’s and Brutus's defeat at Philippi and they had taken their own life, both Mark Anthony and Octavian were made aware and shown the coin. Both publicly announced that they would immediately put to the sword anyone found with an EID Mar coin in their possession. Considering the triumvirate was formed and immediate proscriptions commenced, it was an assured death sentence to hold on to one. Speculation was thousands of the denarii were collected and melted into a statue commemorating the battle of Philippi and deified Julius Caesar. You were truly holding some amazing history in your hand!
Hi Garrett! From my observations throughout the years, I think some points are worth noting:
Rarity per se isnt a predictor of price. I have a unique double-antoninianus, and it is a very cheap coin. The combination of rarity and the "Who cares" factor is what truly makes coins desirable.
Denarii of Nerva for example, are numerous but they are also a key piece of a "5 Good Emperors" set, resulting on quite high prices.
On the topic of beauty, we are 100% in accordance. Beauty, good technique, and style are immediately recognizable, even for someone completely new to numismatics.
And of course, historical significance is masterfully illustrated by this EID MAR aureus. I was already very happy to be able to feature the denarius version on my channel. Holding an Aureus one is one hell of a privilege, congratulations!
Thanks for the video :)
That's true...I could definitely have been clearer about how "rarity" really means "rarity + popularity."
This whole video was based on a stroke of luck. I happened to be in London just when NAC was showing the aureus, and they were kind enough to let me come in and film. (I saw your episode on the EID MAR denarius by the way - that was great!)
not just supply but also demand
great points. I have owned and sold unique 3rd & 4th-century coins for less than 200
The biggest driving factor in any collector market is "market demand", not "rarity". The first time I read it (in a magazine for toy train collecting), I didn't believe it but when I got to know more of the other collectable markets (like firearms and videogames), market demand being the top factor of a specimen's price became understandable to me...
I started collecting and cleaning coins after watching your video on it. In a lot I bought for about $15, I uncovered a coin worth about $100! What a thrilling experience
That was a Lucky shot you got!
Can I ask you where you bought that lot ?
@@LifterAtHeart Nerocoins
Don’t clean your coins!!
I cannot imagine actually touching that, I would nerd out. the fact it has a hole for a necklace punched in it is just wow, amazing stuff.
this feels like a victory for us and you! happy i found this page i admit my knowledge of history is small, this page makes is so easy and fun to learn! thanks for the videos and congrats on this huge achievement!!
Great video! What an honor to be allowed to not just touch this coin but to hold it and feature it in a video! As you say there's something viscerally powerful about being able to touch the past through artifacts like this. It's fun to speculate and daydream about the hands this coin when through! I have a lanyard around my neck to carry a spare key to my front door, so it's easy to understand the impulse to carry something this way and how it must have felt to have it close.
FYI Final Price was 2,200,000 CHF which is about 2,227,060 USD
Absolutely amazing! To be one of the few people alive that have held that coin is truly a once in a lifetime experience.
Excactly. You habe to be somehow Prominent and trusted. The seller will not let anyone holding it.
@@aka99 Least it's dropped and a dent is added to the hole.
I can tell you were very proud to be holding that coin and doing a video on it. As well you should.
Loved the video this week. One of the best you’ve produced. Keep up your inspiring work
Wow. That's some great access to be able to touch these. Great Video.
The EID MAR is a beautiful coin. My favorites ones are older greek coins. the sheer beauty of them and the quality of printing is out of this world !
Except for the hole!
This was just awesome!!! How amazing to hold that in your hand. Thanks for sharing this with us, you make it feel like we are there, im so excited . Thank you for sharing 😃
After the bombs fall: "Hey Bob, throw another Picasso on the fire, it's getting cold in here."
Silver in a denarius will still be valuable though.
2000+ years old, still valuable.
@@ClassicalNumismatics Yeah the coins for sure, I was referring more to the "Masterworks" pyramid scheme
The lens and depth of field of the camera made your hand holding the coin look like it was disembodied, like you'd hired Thing from the Adams Family to hold it up for you.
The museum and collaborators of this video was amazing! will buy your book and maybe a coin too
Watch out for fakes! Read first in different coin forums by experienced collectors who are trusted dealers and who Arent! And i advise what coin you would Like to buy. If you want to have a general knowledge of roman coins watch the videos by youtubechannel classical numismatiics
@@aka99 Thanks for the information. I'm getting ready to buy my first ancient coin soon.
Just picked up your book - massive fan of your videos and excited to get reading!
The value of these coins don't surprise me at all.
Object filled with history are really something else.
Another amazing video! Thanks, Garrett!
I am well familiar with that specific coin, it is WILD you get to see it in person and hold it. I think you just added a tiny bit of value to it :)
Awesome coins, and great telling of the histories associated with each one of them. Thanks.
Amazing video! Thank for connecting us to the past!!🙌🏽
I'm not much for historicity but that one gives me goosebumps. Wow how cool.
Thank you for sharing these beautiful coins with us.
What a great episode,thank you☀️
Incredible video! It awakened curiosity about Julio Caesar's death. I am sure you could do an outstanding video about it!
I bought a denar with trajan on one side and fortuna on the other from about 102 AD. Its strange and awesome to have something that travelled so far and so long until it landed in the palm of your hand. Its a humble little thing but it feels good to have some small connection to the past that you enjoy learning about.
Roman empire was on at its greatest exteant under trajan. So the coin you have purchased maybe traveld from north england to morroco to israel to irak to turkey to Greece to serbia to austria to germania to italy to spain and france and back to england
I just checked my coin jar and I didn't find any of those gold coins. Thanks for the video, now I know what they are.
God damn ToldInStone I saw this coin in the newspaper yesterday and you've already managed to get ahold of it
7:11 It's pretty weird thinking that the most valuable roman coin is one that a guy made in order to conmemorate the death of the man that banged his mother.
Thanks a lot for posting all these interesting films!
Amazing, I love stories like this, thank you 👏
Deeply appreciated!
Very interesting video as always from you! Altrough I've been travelling a lot in Europe, to my deep regret I only saw Roman, Greek Coins at the museums behind thick glasses, in other words I never touched a piece of history in my hand! Maybe I should start doing some archaeology were I live, about 35 km from Florence, it would be interesting.. thanks for sharing this video video...👍👍👍👍
I really love your channel! Your chanel jas reawakned my interest in history and the ancient world! Thank you for your great videos and keep up the good work! :)
Awesome video and chance to see these amazing coins. Thank you
Wow. That’s amazing that you hold it in your hand. A Very special moment for you.
Got my first lot of Roman bronzes to learn the art of cleaning. Currently soaking in distilled water. Thanks for the previous video.
What a poetic story you have told. Amazing!
What an incredible coin to hold! That's fantastic!
Great vid! Recently learned about the Eid Mars and its incredible timing of this. Thanks, tremendous work brother. Keep rockin. fjb.
Wow. That's quite an experience for a historian - holding onto that much history.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Thank you toldinstone
Long time viewer. I enjoy your videos. Look forward to seeing your up and coming. M go blue!
Thank you for the video. I just made my first coin purchase-a lot of cheap uncleaned examples from 27bc-476AD. Looking forward to what they turn into
Awesome - thanks for sharing. Bought your book (twice)...
Thank you! I have this coin which has been in my family for 300 years. Mine does not have a hole in it,so I made, a nice neat hole through it. Now I have a very valuable coin.
I was astounded to see you directly touching and breathing on the coins. What an amazing experience that must have been!
As a coin collector myself, for me it is the connection of the past and learning about it through a physical object. Eventually you want to expand a collection to involve more times and regions and it can be extraordinary to see them with your own eyes.
Some of my favorite coinages are the gold staters of Punic Carthage.
Amazing video. Thank you
This video gives me a Pulp Fiction vibe where Butch is given the gold watch as a kid and told him why it is so special.
Great video, I got myself one of those old coins. Us coin/Roman history enthusiasts appreciate it.
Fascinating! Thank you
Ive started buying old uncleaned coins cause of this channel. One day ill buy a fancy one but cleaning them is pretty great.
Thats cool 😎
thank you for this upload - the feature coin is indeed impressive
Usually priceless coins are held in a protective plastic sleeve or handled while wearing gloves in order to protect them from the residual oils from your hands
just something to consider
This is the best commercial I've ever seen.
WOW! That’s a once in a lifetime opportunity! Also amazing how you mention that you also became part of its history. Are there any chances we will someday find a hoard of these coins?
I think another coin that seems to be a little more affordable and has a direct connection to history would be the Alexander tetradrachms minted in Babylon because the silver used in them came from the Persian treasury if I’m not mistaken
True. I own one i bought Last year from a trusted online dealer. So i believe my coin is Really about 2300 years old. Not the best minted quality butnnot the wirst. My oldest coin is an attika tetradrachme minted in athen. About 2400 years old. From the Same trusted dealer. Aswell not the best minted portray but still nice.
@@aka99 Can I get the name of this dealer?
@@timacorn2536 it is a dealer in germany. do ypu still want that name of the dealer?
@@aka99 oh, never mind then, thanks
This was awesome!
Very cool, thank you.
*Fun fact:* Roman Emperors usually appeared uglier in the coins that depicted them in a profile position. Emperor Claudius got so infuriated the first time he saw his face on the coins dedicated to him, that Empress Messalina had to convince him before he killed someone that people just look different according to the position in which they are seen by others
Also Nero is so fat on his coin 😂
*_I DISAGREE. THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT MAXIMINUS THRAX LOOKED MUCH BETTER ON A COIN._*
Hey dude I just saw you at Majorianus' video
Fat was a mark of wealth and status before the 20th century. We still speak of "rich" foods, high in fats and often protein, that would be a rare treat for common people who mostly subsisted on grains. If you were rich, you could eat as much rich food as you wanted, and you didn't have to do manual labour to burn it off.
@@CleverMonster101 Of course he's going to look fat. I mean, an absolute mommy's little boy like Nero is not going to care about his aspect, but about just how beatufil special he is according to his mom Agrippina.
Lovely video. I enjoyed it very much.
Interesting and beautiful. Thank you
I was always so surprised to see that you can buy ancient coints so cheap have a whole cub full of them from different museums and found some myself.
There is cool, really cool, and then this video. Thanks so much.
I love buying and selling ancient coins. I always have some ancient Judea Prutah coins from 100BC-70AD, your common bronze Greek and Roman coins. My favorite to buy and sell are the Roman Antoninianus or Double denarius. They are about the size of a quarter and can be bright silver and have nice details and can be had for 40-60$ each
ancient coins are so special , just to imagine someone worked or killed for that coin and to imagine the hands it passed through thousands of years ago.
Crazy my grandpa used to work for Nelson Bunker Hunt on his Hunt ranch between Terrell and Mesquite Texas. They were good friends and my grandpa was the top foreman of the ranch.
*_HOW MANY OF THESE WOULD IT TAKE TO BUILD THE COLOSSEUM?_*
*Flavian amphitheatre*
stuff like this is important - to know the history and feel it
I wonder how many more exist hidden away somewhere. Beautiful stuff.
We will Never know
This video reminded me of a time when I met a person who own a Stradivarius violin. He asked if I wished to hold it. I said no at first because of the immense liability to any potential accidents. The owner insisted and I gave in.
I never held such a high valued small piece of craftsmanship. Just knowing that I once held an instrument that was created by Mr. Stradivarius himself is an awe experience.
My uncle took a fiddle and a painting to an art appraiser who said that he had a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt!!!!!
Unfortunately Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt made rubbish 🎻 violins 😋
This is just so extremely cool 😎
Wow. Originally i was thinking some modern collector put the hole in it. The fact that it couldve been a supporter of Brutus himself that put it there, its incredible, sends a chill down my spine thinking about how much history that very coin sat through.
Of all the coins I own, the ones that had been in circulation the longest and nearly unrecognizable are my favored ones.
Investing in art…smoothest commercial promo I’ve seen on TH-cam and actually seems kinda cool to be able to buy a share in popular art as a investment.
I have a nice little cache of antique money and ancient coins. Yes I guess some are for an investment but really I just can’t get enough of the history around them. Thank god for channels like this because it sates my appetite for anything ancient Roman Greek or Egyptian lol.
Same here
Me too, I tend to collect "barbarian" copies of roman and greek coins. They are usually quite crude compared to the originals but I find them fascinating.
Simply incredible!
Dr. G, what a great post. I watched it last evening and all this morning I've been googling away about Roman coinage and I have two questions I can't seem to find answers to. First, what was the value of the sestertius 'backed' by at any given time? The gold in the vaults of the temple of Jupiter? And second, at what point in 'the dark ages' did Roman coinage, especially the gold and silver coins, cease being used? Did the emerging Christian kingdoms melt them down and re-stamp them, or melt them down just for other uses? I was thinking of the Mexican silver dollar that was in use internationally for it's uniform quality and silver content from 1497 up until (in the US) as late as 1857 and how your dollar and our Canadian one derives from that original Spanish/Mexican one.
A gold coin commemorating the most (in)famous incident in all of Roman history, commissioned by the guy who did the deed. It's miraculous that it was ever discovered. I wonder if the second triumvirate, led by Octavian, damned Brutus' memory. If so, then yeah, it's a miracle. Secret Brutus stans hoarding the Brutus coins.
Your voice is amazing !
I've only ever seen one of them and that was on the television show Pawn Stars.
The value of an ancient coin is determined by supply and demand, just like most anything else. Supply, that is quantity available, is something you can estimate at any point in time; but in ancients that can change radically as hoards are found. An example is the silver of the period of Diocletian; at the end of the 19th century they were extraordinarily valuable but starting in the 1950's several hoards were found and still are to this day; these coins now sell in the $1000 range in Extra Fine (EF) condition, far down in real terms from what they once were. Demand is a function of the sorts of things mentioned in this article, plus the appeal of the historical aspect of the coin. For example, the Brutus coin cited here is highly desirable due to the fact that we all know about Brutus from the Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar", and the coin both shows a dagger and refers to the ides of March--familiar to anyone who read "Julius Caesar" in school. It is an interesting period of history, with the story known due to the play; the result is high demand. I have collected ancient coins for decades and have spent quite a bit on some coins (for instance, bronze coins of Alexander of Carthage) but I warn anyone who sees these coins as investments; supply simply cannot be known, given metal detecting and hoards, and it is quite possible for something that is ultra rare today to be quite common ( and thus less valuable) tomorrow.
Almost no one I know knows what the Eids of March is.
That coin will easily go for 2-3 million dollars. Such amazing history. I bought a few Greek coins from auction today, the art work in ancient coins is just so ahead of its time.
Why was it ahead of its time? It was of its time. When you say "ahead of its time" you are assuming that ancient people were dimwitted or inferior but somehow managed to pull off a good job. No; they were people just like us and many of them were brilliant.
@@GreenTeaViewer You should look at Greek or Roman coins between 300 bc and 300 ad. They are masterpieces. & very much ahead of their time. Then if you look at coins afterwards for even 1000 years plus they don’t look great at all, the same pride is not taken as it was before. Nobody ever said they weren’t as intelligent, but their hard work holds up so much better in time. Usually there is a linear progression with technology, but not in this case. Think about quality over quantity in a sense.
I shall mint such coins upon the foundation of a new empire
Becuase Brutus was hated after Caesar's assassination, his Eides of March coinage is scarce and the Aureus versions are even more scarce.
Don't make statements about subjects you have incomplete knowledge of. Brutus was not hated after Caesar's assassination, especially not in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Propaganda by Octavian made him a hated person later.
@@SonKunSama
You didn't complete my knowledge, you simply added more incomplete knowledge my friend. Who in the sons of Dis gives you the right to correct me?
In an alternate universe where Brutus & Cassius emerged victorious at Philippi, maybe the Eid Mar aureus wouldn't have ended up so rare, and instead the biggest price tag would be on coins minted by Antony.
Their was a local bazarre at the base in Afghanistan where I worked. The locals were selling so many ancient coins I didnt know where to start. I didnt know if they were real or counterfit!