rg3's top 10 romans and top 10 greeks of 2021

Since 2021 was a much better year than 2020, I will share my top 20.
My top 10 Romans:



1. an ex Andrew McCabe Cato quinarius via Roma
2. a caesar elephant replacement via Kirk Davis
3. an ex DePew plancus medusa via JA
4. a well centered sextus sea monster via HA
5. the final imp caesar octavian to complete that mini set via CNG
6. a potential secular games era denarius to help bolster that set via CNG
7. a tribute penny replacement via Naville
8. a vindex denarius via Roma
9. the final (standard) travel series den to complete that mini set via HA
10. James Pickering's Geta Victory over Britain denarius via KD

Hope you enjoy as much as I do reading your posts.

Will post top 10 Greeks in the days to come.

 

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Nice additions, @rg3.

Thanks for sharing your 2021 Roman denarii. I like your #2,3 and 4. Looking forward to your Greek selections.

 

Monsters, rarities, and pedigrees... a great year indeed!

 

Really nice selection....
Wow!..The Medusa!...And the reverse even more!..For me a super looking coin!..But they're all cool looking coins...
Congrats on a nice year of collecting....Paul

 

Cato, Caesar, sea monster, an excellent set - congrats on your 2021 @rg3! I particularly like the Plautius with Aurora.

Public Domain Image, etching "Aurora" by Guido Reni 1886

Here's my less complete example:

 

WOW! A sea monster and a Medusa, some amazing coins
Thanks for sharing them with us.
John

 

A terrific group. It's hard to pick my favorites - perhaps the Cato quinarius and the Octavian?

 

I like the Scylla best. Who doesn't like a rudder wielding dogfishman. Please show us the flip side.

 

Great denarii @rg3 ! My favorites are;
#1 Great coin all around!
#3 Beautiful design and yours is particularly beautiful.
#8 I also like the travel series denarii of Hadrian. I hope you’ll post your full set at some point! I was also able to add a travel series this year.

 

Octavian and Vindex are my favorites. The whole series is covetable though
Well done. Looks like you had a great coin year

Q

 

What a wonderful Top 10! All of them are excellent, but my favorites are the beautiful Cato quinarius and the rare Augustus denarius by Aquilius Florus.

 

Lovely additions! I really your numbers 4, 5 and 6. I there were a poll, I'd vote for them ;-)
Do you have a picture of the obverse of the Sextus' coin?

 

I agree with everyone else. It is a really nice group! For me the top coin is the Octavian. What a moment in history!

 

Thank you for your kind comments @happy_collector, @TIF, @Spaniard, @panzerman, @DonnaML, @Cucumbor, and @zumbly. Awesome Aurora visual @Sulla80. Thank you for sharing. I have a buddy originally from Gaeta and hope to visit and see the Plancus (more famous kin of the moneyer) mausoleum one day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Munatius_Plancus).

Your wish is my command @rrdenarius and @Limes:



Although the obverse is not perfectly centered, I am happy to have a nearly complete Pharos.

Also, thank you @Curtisimo for the interest. I will upload my travel series set to another thread in the coming days. For now, here is the obverse of the corresponding 2021 favorite:

 

An impressive set! Bravo!

 

Happy turkey day, here are my top 10 Greek silver coins:




1. starr v.b upgrade (my other example has more severe cuts) via roma
2. aegina turtle with severe test cut via roma
3. aspendos stater with complete triskeles and good amount of warrior via roma
4. corinthian drachm via roma
5. syracusean tet signed by Parmenides via fsr
6. carian stater with iris and baetyl via naumann
7. croton nomos with eagle via ha
8. elisian hemidrachm from 83rd-85th olympiad via cng
9. akragas distater via dnw
10. himeran distater via cng

Hope everyone is able to have a good meal with loved ones today.

 

Very nice Greek selection, @rg3! Looks like you had a good year.

I love the portrait of Aphrodite on the Corinthian. The incuse eagle reverse from Croton is breathtaking (I'd love to see the obverse of that one!) and the Carian stater with Iris is great. Congratulations!

 

The Akragas is very nice! Happy Thanksgiving

 

Fantastic year, @rg3! I like the Medusa/Aurora, the Caesar Octavian, and the Pegasus from Corinth! Lovely coins!

 

Those are wonderful Greeks @rg3 ! I especially like the Athens tet and the Himeran distater! It looks like you had a great year!

Here is my owl. These are fun coins. Yours is especially nice being a Start group Vb