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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1775461, member: 19463&quot;]If I were to have to criticize the 100 book it would be for its inconsistency when it comes to defining what is a &#039;coin&#039; for the purpose of the list.&nbsp; The Croesid bull/lion type is represented by a page full of variations on the theme in more than one metal and more than one size.&nbsp; Syracusan dekadrachms get two separate listings according to whether the die was cut by Euainatos (#3)&nbsp; or Kimon (#4) and a third for the only slightly different Demareteion (#5).&nbsp; &nbsp; Had he used the same criteria for Syracuse that he used for Croesis, I might have been able to post my Syracuse tetradrachm and hexas from the series headlined by those two dekadrachms.&nbsp; Realize that I&#039;m no better since when I posted my top 25 on that other list, the top three were all Septimius Severus issues with the Victor Ivst reverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many others, including that Philip millennium commemorative, were represented by one coin out of several that fit the motif.&nbsp; Here I claim such a major advantage over Mr. Berk:&nbsp; Anything I post on this space or on my webpage can be updated with some ease in case I change my mind.&nbsp;&nbsp; He is pretty much stuck with those 100 and the huge stack of books both sold and remaining in stock.&nbsp; Since I posted my top 25 list, I have acquired at least ten new (to me) coins that could elbow their way into the top 25 and certainly would make my next list at least a top 50.&nbsp; Sinc Mr. Berk was listing on what he knows to exist after a life in numismatics, I doubt he has become aware of more than one possibly worthy coin that he did not know when the book was published.&nbsp; Ranking coins in the top group is really impossible for me since I learn and forget at an amazing rate these days and since I am as fickle as I choose to be.&nbsp; That is OK;&nbsp; it is, after all, just a hobby.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not like I was basing a multi-million dollar business on people being willing to pay over melt value for my collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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