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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1920801, member: 19463&quot;]1. an archaic&nbsp; silver with punch mark reverse</p><p>2. a 5th century BC silver with two sides</p><p>3. a Classical style high art silver</p><p>4. a Greek bronze </p><p>5. something of Alexander the Great</p><p>6. a Hellenistic coin</p><p>7. a Roman Republican</p><p>8. one coin of any of the earlier Roman emperors</p><p>9. a late Roman </p><p>10. a Byzantine </p><p><br /></p><p>Each of these could be filled by at least a thousand different coins.&nbsp; For balance, it would be nice if one of the unspecified numbers were gold and the others varied in size (for example: if #1 is tiny, #2 should be a tetradrachm). </p><p>[ATTACH=full]329898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329897[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329895[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]329896[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]329899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329900[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329903[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To keep it to ten, I had to make the early Roman (#7) a Provincial and the first (#1) Persian.&nbsp; I would have preferred to have used a separate Roman Imperial and something completely non-Western to show that ancients are not all Greek and Roman but that would have required 12 coins.&nbsp; I feel a little bad using that Alexander tetradrachm of the common type rather than something less usual for #5 but the test cut makes it a coin none here would select.&nbsp; The point is that there is no &#039;top ten&#039; that represents the entire span of ancient coinage.&nbsp; Given 100, something of interest would get slighted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Given 100, I would have included YOC&#039;s suggested commemorative which could have been my #9.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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