[Ancients] Top 10 Index

Welp, results posted, and I still don’t know if I won

 

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Thanks for this helpful thread, @Curtisimo. I haven't posted any top 10s yet but bumping with a coin I know will not be in my top 10. It arrived with post-photo patina damage. (It was cheap & not worth sending back so they gave me a credit to my account.)


Trajan Decius AE semis // Mars

 

Thanks @Curtisimo! I am lately very busy with work and all stuff around it, soon everything will finally start to cool down and I will have time to look and comment on everyone's amazing top 10.

 

Thanks for doing and updating the list, @Curtisimo. With so many top 10 threads, it's easy to lose the overview, so this is most welcome!

Bumping with a coin that almost made my list:

Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg, under Wolfhard von Roth-Wackernitz, AR bracteate penny, ca. 1290–1330. Obv: bust of bishop facing, wearing mitre, holding crosier and book. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 20.5mm, 0.66g. Ref: Berger 2656–2661; Slg Bonhoff 1919; Steinhilber 94. Ex Emporium Hamburg, Auction 80, lot 1984; ex private collection.

 

This is a useful thread. There are many "top 10" lists and it is hard to know if I've seen them all, so now I can go through them by number. Thanks!

 

Yes I had a couple of almost made it, and probably should have.
Sicily, Selinos, Attribution: CNS 11; HGC 2, 1238
Date: Circa 415-409 BC
Obverse: Head of Herakles right, in lion skin headdress
Reverse: ΣE; Bow and Quiver
Size: 16.35mm
Weight: 3.62 grams

Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ As (25.5mm, 11.67 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 111. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / AQVA/ TRAIANA in two lines in exergue, Genius of the Aqua Traiana reclining left under arched and ornamented grotto supported by two columns, holding reed and leaning on urn from which water flows. RIC II 463; Woytek 361b. VF, dark brown patina, traces of earthen deposits.

SPAIN, Emerita. Divus Augustus. Died AD 14. Æ Dupondius (35mm, 25.7 g, 2h).DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER CAE, Radiate head left / City-view seen from aerial perspective: city wall with five T-shaped crenellations fronted by main gate consisting of two arched bays flanked by two multi-story crenellated towers, each with arched window; gate inscribed AVGVSTA/EMERITA and decorated with four T-shaped crenellations. RPC 30b; SNG Copenhagen -; Burgos 1032.

 

Wow, that’s a list almost overwhelming

 

That could be the very solution, starting each thread title with “Year End List:” followed by the member’s name and any descriptors, clickbait, hyperbole, etc.

 

We could also use a standard tag. "Year End List" sounds like a good one to use - it covers all the variations.

 

I agree 100 percent!

 

Tag's a good idea. I'll add it to my very short list.

Edit. Nevermind. I would add it if I could. Thought's what counts, right?

 

I bet the mods would do it if we asked nicely.

 

I added the tag “year end favorite lists” to this thread. Let’s see if it catches on.

I would add to the discussion though that it will be hard to get everyone to remember or care to tag the exact same thing and so inevitably there will be lists that are buried and lost. Plus who will remind people next year? You would have to see this thread to know about what to tag.

 

I see @Orielensis has already added it to his thread.

 

I feel genuinely flattered that I was added to this list..thank you...

 

I added a tag to my (very short) list : Year end list I wrote. Not sure how it works though.

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So under my current assumption, you only have a certain time frame to edit your post. Is that correct @Curtisimo ?

 

Yes that is correct. I don’t know exactly how long though but I think it is a bit longer for supporters than regular members.

 

Great thread.

 

@Curtisimo ...Nice idea! Thanks for setting it up.
One of mine that didn't quite make it...

Severus Alexander. 222-235 AD. AR Denarius (2.89 gm, 20mm). Rome mint. Struck 228 AD.
Obv.: IMP SEV ALE-XAND AVG, laureate head right.
Rev.: PM TRPVII COSII PP , Mars standing right, holding shield and spear.
RIC IV 83; BMCRE 503; RSC 337. aEF.