The Restored Smackdown XII: Animals

Gold - Martin's- Horse and Bull drachm
Silver- DavidUK's - Corinth stater
Bronze - Pish's - Atheniam Owl

Gold - Maridvnvm Thessaly, Larissa, Silver Drachm
Silver - Pishpash Athens owl
Bronze - Murtivlatoris Zuegitania

What a great smackdown, I especially love archaic Greek coins so this one had many entries which were particularly to my taste.

Wow time fly's, been off the wall busy..
Tif awesome idea, my favorite anamals on coins.

1st. Gold..Pish..Athen's Owl..Wow.

2. Silver..Martin's..Horse and Bull..

3.Bronze..Duk..Corinth Stater..

Great coin's, very nice..

There was some really cool stuff on this one.

Gold - Maridvnvm - Thessaly Drachm
Silver - David - Corinth Stater
Bronze - Augustus - Creten Goat

Nevermind, Noob and January... it doesn't make a difference to the top 3. There were bunches of interesting entries so thanks for the entertainment and education I particularly enjoy stories about why you liked a certain coin and how you went about getting it.

I took a hardnose line about the bonus because I asked that you address all 3 questions to qualify... many of you answered 1 or 2 but not all three.

The questions were:

1) Why you sought out this coin or this type of coin.

2) How you found this particular coin, the lengths you went through to get it, how you won or bought it, prior attempts and failures, etc.

3) Why did the issuer use that animal? If scholarly literature doesn't answer the question, provide your best guess.

Here's the checklist of the entries and whether or not the questions were addressed (***means that bonus criteria were met):

chrsmat71, Sept. Sev.
1 yes
2 yes
3 no

***chrsmat71, Julian II
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes

***pishpash, owl tet
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes

pishpash, Carthage AE shekel
1 yes
2 yes
3 no

echizento, Lydia AR stater
1 no
2 no
3 no

echizento, Roman Republic denarius
1 no
2 no
3 no

David UK, Aegina turtle stater
1 yes
2 yes
3 no

***David UK, Corinth stater
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes

MartiVItori, Zeugitana AE
1 no
2 no
3 no

MartiVItori, Vitellius denarius
1 no
2 no
3 no

***maridvnvm, Larissa drachm
1 yes
2 yes (barely)
3 yes

augustus1, Roman Rep. Gnaeus Plancius denarius
1 no
2 no
3 yes

***Ancientnoob, Bactrian AR drachm
1 yes
2 yes (barely)
3 yes

Ancientnoob, Krishnaraja, AR Rupaka
1 yes
2 sort of
3 no

Dutchgulden, Diadumenian
1 yes
2 yes
3 no

Dutchgulden, Olbia dolphin
1 yes
2 sort of
3 no

***ValiantKnight, Ostrogothic follis
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes

***ValiantKnight, Ostrogothic half follis
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes



The winners:

GOLD maridvnvm
SILVER pishpash
BRONZE DavidUK

The scores:

maridvnvm's stater 42

pishpash's Athenian owl 24

DavidUK's Corinth stater 20

ValiantKnight not sure, either 9 if both votes were for one coin or some split of those numbers if the votes were for different coins

augustus1's Republican denarius 5

Ancientnoob's Bactrian 4

MartiVItori's Zeugitana 4

dutchgulden's Diadumenian 2

MartiVItori's Vitellius 1

dutchgulden's Olbia dolphin 1


Martin-- your turn to host.

Oh, whoops, I missed that. I will correct the standings :)

Hope I didn't miss others as well.

Suggestion to voters in subsequent Smackdowns-- please use the screen name, not the IRL name which the host may not know. Maybe in the future entries should have names and numbers for ease of voting, such as "pishpash #1".

Great job everyone.

Congrats Martin! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

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