It’s amazing how just a single bad apple can spoil the entire barrel, but admissions by a prominent British coin auctioneer is casting a shadow over the ancient coin market. On August 14, British coin dealer Richard Beale admitted to two counts of conspiracy and three counts of criminal possession of stolen property in the New York Supreme Court.
Beale had been accused of assigning a fake provenance to the famed 42 B.C. Roman Eid Mar