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I will be closing the poll tomorrow evening.

Friends, if you have not voted please do so.

And I could say the same about #7 (the Pyu).

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.

Thanks Wheat. It is a nice example commemorating the thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome, struck 248 AD.

FWIW = for what it's worth...

Thank-you. I now know more today than I did yesterday.