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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 5233850, member: 44357&quot;]I think if you asked 10 people what the 10 most important coins are, you&#039;d get at least 11 results back because someone would change their mind halfway through (I certainly would!)</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like they took inspiration from the HJB &quot;100 Greatest&quot; sequencing where Berk asked a number of collectors to rank their favorites and then summed up the results. This follows the &quot;wisdom of the crowd&quot; which has some basis in mathematics and cognitive science.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the author couldn&#039;t recognize that they had two Athens dekadrachms in the same list so perhaps it isn&#039;t the most scientific.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for owning items on the list, I do have a number of these, depending on how precise your definitions are:</p><p><br /></p><p>#1. Eid Mar denarius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217209[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#2. No Athens dekadrachm but I&#039;ll share my Athens gold (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/white-whale-acquired-not-the-usual-athens.322018/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/white-whale-acquired-not-the-usual-athens.322018/">detail in this thread</a>) which is far more interesting in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217210[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#3. Syracuse dekadrachm. They meant to post a coin like this, a Kimon dekadrachm. The signed versions are more expensive but I find this pair of unsigned dies for Kimon to be more attractive:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217211[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#4. The Akragas dekadrachm is virtually unattainable: the one nice example sold for $3M+ and the other looks like it went through a garbage disposal (but Clio bought it to have an example of the type, still costing &gt; $100K). Here&#039;s my obol which is comparable in rarity to the dekadrachm (a single known pair of dies) and impressive for different reasons with its small size. I certainly wouldn&#039;t turn down a particularly fine style larger example but it wouldn&#039;t replace this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217212[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#5. I have no coins of Naxos. I can appreciate the artistic influence and the transition from archaic to classical but even the nice ones are available with some regularity as long as you&#039;re willing to spend a house for one.</p><p><br /></p><p>#6. Gold heavy stater of Croesus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217213[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#7. Titus Colosseum sestertius. <i>Ex Dr. Paul Hartwig, MM P&amp;P Santamaria, Rome 07.03.1910, Lot 1215</i>[ATTACH=full]1217214[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>#8. Portrait denarius of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. As their example shows, it&#039;s hard to find a coin with CLEOPATRA fully visible on the flan which was my main factor:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217215[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#9. Port of Ostia sestertius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217216[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>#10. Julius Caesar denarius, a coin I&#039;m working on upgrading although a friend tracked down a nice pedigree: Ex: Count Tolstoy, March 11, 1912, lot 706</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217217[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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