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Moderator
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Your First Meris is my favorite coin, so that gets my vote.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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We have counted 16 votes. I will leave it open for a few more days.
Thank you friends and lurkers....cast votes if you have not.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Man the First Meris is still in the lead and the gap is growing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I voted for the hephthalite. it's an eastern coin, which I associate with your area of expertise, but it's pretty recognizable to an ancient collector (at least by type..fire sassanian fire alter mod).
but heck, they're all nice...can't go wrong.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I will be closing the poll tomorrow evening.
Friends, if you have not voted please do so.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I still say you should choose #1 for the reasons I stated. The coin just screams "Ancientnoob".
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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I still say you should choose #1 for the reasons I stated. The coin just screams "Ancientnoob". And I could say the same about #7 (the Pyu). |
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And I could say the same about #7 (the Pyu) You can, but it would ultimately boil down to which he likes better, assuming he ignores the majority and tries to choose among the eastern coins. I'm not a collector of Indian, Buddha, Pyu, or any related coinage, so I went with the most aethestically pleasing among the eastern coins he presented. |
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United States
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I am so thrilled the coins in question are being so candidly discussed. J1M and VK you are both very correct. I am a collector of coins of the world both ancient or medieval. I aspire to collect at least one representative type of each Kingdom and Empire, and through my numismatic career I realized that the majority of ancient coins are not found in Europe, but in Asia. If one was too look at my collection you would see many coins east of Eden. The medieval world makes up a good plurality of the collection. I have even considered a change in handle, once created to humble myself, it has now become somewhat deceiving and may hurt my creditability (FWIW). I think in the end I will keep "Ancientnoob" seeing as though the name is both comical and memorable.
Honestly I was not surprised to see the First Meris take a commanding lead. The coin is large, gorgeous and fresh. It combines the might of the Romans with the skill of the Greeks a testament to the ancient Greco Roman world. It seemed very popular among the "Lurkers." I noticed most of y'all "regulars" recognize the coins that speak the personality of the man behind the keyboard.
Admittedly if I had the authority long ago to strike coins, they would flat (stackable), Silver (only slightly debased for my vig). My coin would be of large diameter planchet, and I would be pictured wearing my best jewelry and my biggest most ostentatious hat. It would be covered with the various languages of my realm, a symbol and our literacy and our unity. Contemporary haters would call us illiterate barbarians, the origin of the coins would baffle modern scholars and coin geeks would make it their avatars.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I voted for Philip the Arab. Great example of a silvered antoninianus IMHO.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks Wheat. It is a nice example commemorating the thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome, struck 248 AD.
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Pillar of the Community
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O.K., A.N. - I will show my ignorance.
What does (FWIW) mean? (Just to help out those who do not know, of course.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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FWIW = for what it's worth...
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Pillar of the Community
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Thank-you. I now know more today than I did yesterday.
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