You put it perfectly when you described Beale as a frontman, and agree that he’s probably the ‘public’ face of others.
I’m curious whether Beale in any way declared he was the owner of the two coins being auctioned, because I’m pretty sure that under NY rules one has (or had) to - it’s the legal technically used re ancient coins the late Al Thani bought from an auction, where the auctioneers had not clarified that they owned and had put together the so-called ‘collection’
The Ides of March coin had been seized before 8th February, to clarify another point.
