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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3758095, member: 19463"]I was going to wait until the poll closed to comment but the question came up so.....</p><p>I would have selected the Germanicus if I had found the author of the painted 47 but it is a very common coin and not very special compared to the thousand better ones out there. The countermarked wrestlers are favorites but, again the coins are common and common with countermarks of one sort or another. I was a bit surprised to see the three lowest vote getters are probably among the rarest of the bunch (I believe over half of these are either unique or one of two or three) while the popular turtle and bull are extremely common. Picking ten was very hard. I was unable to pick just 100 when I did my page:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html</a></p><p>I did that page in tribute to Harlan Berk's 100 Greatest book which everyone should read/own. I was glad to copy his practice of showing some backup coins under some numbers which allowed me to show 125+ coins and call it 99 1/2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3758095, member: 19463"]I was going to wait until the poll closed to comment but the question came up so..... I would have selected the Germanicus if I had found the author of the painted 47 but it is a very common coin and not very special compared to the thousand better ones out there. The countermarked wrestlers are favorites but, again the coins are common and common with countermarks of one sort or another. I was a bit surprised to see the three lowest vote getters are probably among the rarest of the bunch (I believe over half of these are either unique or one of two or three) while the popular turtle and bull are extremely common. Picking ten was very hard. I was unable to pick just 100 when I did my page: [URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html[/URL] I did that page in tribute to Harlan Berk's 100 Greatest book which everyone should read/own. I was glad to copy his practice of showing some backup coins under some numbers which allowed me to show 125+ coins and call it 99 1/2.[/QUOTE]
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