"100+/- Greatest Ancient Coins" of Cointalk

Me? A judger? I don't think so. There was a time when a goat was posted and........

 

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Ahhh, the good ol' daze, eh? ...
=> PAN Party at my house!!!





... I made a bit of an edit to my original post (a bit older, a bit wiser => dodged anotha bullet!!)

 

I'm glad it's just a bit.

 

Been out of town for a few days and i see Steve has hit the ground running...
Here are my top 5 coins...

Number 1..
Byzantine Empire..
Bronze Anonymous follis..
969-976..AD..
Bust of Christ Jesus facing.
34mm x 16.63 g.

 

Number 2 and 3..

Byzantine Empire..1071-1078..AD.
A/ Histamenon Nomisma..Scyphate.
OB..Bust of Christ Jesus facing.
Mint..Constantinople Gold..
29mm x 4.36 g.






Byzantine Empire..1068- 1071..AD.
Romanus lV Diogenes..
AV Histamenon Scyphate.
Ob.Michael Vll
Rev.Christ Jesus Standing..
Mint..Constatinople
28mm x 4.43 g.

 

And last Number 4 and 5...

Athens 449-413..B.C.
AR Tetradrcahm..Owl
24 x 25 mm x 17.21 g.





Greek Arados...138-43..B.C..
AR Tetradrachm..
Turreted head Tyche,,
29mm x 14.97 g.

 

=> awesome coins, Eng!!

 

I think I have posted these all before but here are my top ones so far. As a realtively newbie collector I don't quite have the collection to draw on as many of you but I love these just the same.

Vespasian Alexandrian Tetradrachm - Alexandria Reverse


Nero Alexandrian Tetradrachm - Roma reverse with eyes punched out on both sides
Someone didn't like Nero!


Trajan Alexandrian Tetradrachm - Diakonysne (sp?) reverse


Hopefully I will have a nice Imperial to add to this lot soon. Most of my other coins are budget examples

Cheers

 

Good lookin' coins, my fellow Manitoban!!

 

Well this is going to take some thought, I will revisit this from my home computer.

 

Instead of posting my top 5 I will just link to my old top 10. The caracalla I dont have anymore but hard to pick a replacement in its place.

http://www.cointalk.com/posts/1476672/

 

=> Great Top-10 thread, Mat!! (it was a good read)