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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2927328, member: 51347&quot;]I ended my last posting of my Top 10 for 2017 with:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>&quot;And so many others...&quot;</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/top-10-for-2017-alegandron.306764/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/top-10-for-2017-alegandron.306764/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/top-10-for-2017-alegandron.306764/</a></i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p>I purchased a little over 150 Ancient coins in 2017, which is a markedly slower pace than my last couple years.&nbsp; There were so many coins I captured this year that I really, really liked for their Historical place-marker significance.&nbsp; However, I would like to post the <i><b>Second-String</b></i> of my Top 10 Coins for 2017.&nbsp; I feel that any of these would have made it into my original Top-10...</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins posted in no particular order...&nbsp; Random mayhem is always fun!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Please feel free to post ANY of your coins, match-ups to my coins, your thoughts, critiques, corrections, etc... are always welcomed!&nbsp; </span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Pile-ons were fun in my Football days; <u>Coin Pile-Ons are always welcome</u>!!!</span></i></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Famous Guy out East:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710087[/ATTACH]</p><p>Indo-Greek Baktria Menander I Soter BC 155-130 AR Tet 26mm 9.6g Diad - Athena Alkidemos tbolt Gorgon shield SNG ANS 764-767</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Part of my Diodachi-Alexandrine Focus:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710088[/ATTACH]</p><p>Seleucid Seleucus I 312-280 BCE AR Tet 14.46g Seleucia on Tigris. Zeus - Athena driving a quadriga of 4 horned elephants SC 130</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Famous Rebel against Tyranny and the Murder of the Republic:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710089[/ATTACH]</p><p>RR Gaius Cassius Longinus &amp; P Corn Lentulus Spinther AR den 42 BCE military mint Brutus Cassius Smyrna Libertas r-&nbsp; jug &amp; lituus 18mm 3.3g</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Carthage, Nemesis of Rome - seems to NEVER have Bulls on their coinage.&nbsp; LOL, this as attributed as a STEER...&nbsp; Ummm... no, as can be clearly seen:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710090[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage 216-215 BCE Sardinia mint AE 3.3g Tanit L - BULL stndg R CNP 377a</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Carthage&#039;s LARGEST struck coin as Hannibal after the 2nd Punic War was scrambling to pay off debt and indemnities to Rome:</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]710091[/ATTACH]</b></p><p>Carthage 201-175 BC Æ 15 Shekels <b>45 mm 7.5 mm thick. 102g</b> WreathTanit Horse uraeus above. MAA 104 SNG Cop 400 RARE</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Carthage - Barcid Silver for the 2nd Punic War.&nbsp; Yup, SNG Cop North Africa shows that funky nose in their plate...</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710092[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage Zeugitania AR ½ Shekel 17mm 3.8g 2nd Punic War 218-202 BC Sicily mint 216-211 BC Tanit l Horse r sun as double uraeus SNG COP 359</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Acheloos - just because ([USER=78411]@Nicholas Molinari[/USER] would like that approach):</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710093[/ATTACH]</p><p>GELA AR Didrachm 490-480 BCE Horseman with spear r - Forepart of man-headed bull r</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Etruria - Unusual coin minted in Italy:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710094[/ATTACH]</p><p>Etruria 3rd C BCE AE 18mm 4.76g Hd African r Elephant r letter below SNG COP 48 HNI 69 SNG Paris 138-140 SNG Morcom 44 RARE</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>I love the Roman Republic Sestertius - 2-1/2 Asses, <i><span style="color: #b30000">IIS</span></i> is Two-and-a-Semi:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710096[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR Sestertius After 211 BCE 12mm 1.0g Rome mint Roma r IIS - Dioscuri riding stars in ex ROMA Sear 46 Craw 44-7 RSC 4</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Roman Occupation of Macedonia:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]710111[/ATTACH]</p><p>RR Roman Occupied Macedonia Gaius Publilius, Questor Amphipolis Mint As AE26 As ROMA Griffin MAKEDONWN TAMIOV GAIOV POPAILIOV oak wreath&nbsp; BC 148-146 SNG COP 1318</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>...and still more... (but I am done posting)&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i><b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Please feel free to post ANY of your coins, match-ups to my coins, your thoughts, critiques, corrections, etc... are always welcomed! </span></i></b></i></b></p><p><b><i><b><i><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></i></b></i></b></p><p><b><i><b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Pile-ons were fun in my Football days; Coin Pile-Ons are always welcome!!!</span></i></b></i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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