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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alex22, post: 4285735, member: 102942&quot;]Hello everyone. Possessing one gorgeous Celtic coin with a few creatures on it, I started to wonder which ancient coin, here on CoinTalk, would have the greatest number of creature/animal types on it, whether or not normalised by the surface area of the coin. As this sounds like an interesting topic, supplementing the recent animal themes appearing on CT, let’s post our coins that may claim the greatest number of creature/animal types on a single side of it (the side you choose to nominate), or just have many creatures on it, for fun. The rules of the competition are as follows.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1.</b> Mystical creatures, known animals, fragments of creatures (i.e. only head etc.) and humans (standing or sitting people, busts etc.) all count, as soon as those were meant to represent a life form, whether real or mythical, alive or dead.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2.</b> You should <b>only count the types/species</b> of creatures, not their quantity. For instance, all the horses of a quadriga reverse would contribute only +1 in the total count (i.e. only horse species). Analogously, if you have multiple people standing, along with one other animal, that would be +1 for the human species, and another +1 for the other animal (total: 2).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>3.</b> The total count should reflect <b>only a single side</b>, either the obverse, or the reverse of the coin, even if both sides may feature creatures.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>4.</b> While nominating a creature-rich coin, post the picture of both its obverse and reverse, however, <b>clearly indicate in your post which side you nominate</b> for the consideration, as only one side of it can be counted (as per rule <b>3</b>).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>5.</b> Importantly, also <b>write the diameter of the coin in its description</b>, in <i>mm</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>6.</b> One way we shall score the coins would be by calculating the &lt;<i>number of all animal/mythical creature/human types</i>&gt; (count) on a single nominated side of it (obverse or reverse) divided by (0.785 x d^2), where d is the diameter of the coin in millimeters (<i>hence, why this information was needed</i>). d^2 is the squared diameter and the whole expression for the denominator is from the area of a circle (A = pi x d^2/4). <b>You do not need to calculate this score</b>, as I can do it for you and reply to your post with the density score, <b>as long as you bring up the coin diameter</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>7.</b> We shall also crown the coin with the highest non-normalised number of creature types, where the coin size would not matter, the coin with the count coming from both sides combined, the coin with the greatest creature density, but with creatures &gt; 1. I will bring the statistics and highlight the possible claimants as posts accumulate.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>8.</b> The coins with the greatest scores, as expressed by the metrics reflected in <b>6</b> and <b>7</b>, will be the reigning kings on CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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