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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Smojo, post: 2596717, member: 78058&quot;]When everyone started their best of 2016 I thought to myself no way.</p><p>I didn&#039;t want to add moderns to the mix and I really just got serious about collecting ancients in May.</p><p>Did I really have enough to fill 10 slots? Amazingly yes, and then some.</p><p>Do they compete with what the other members have? Oh hell no.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you guys got me thinking. I pulled up my spread sheet &amp; then pulled everything out. I actually put some back &amp; narrowed it down to 10.</p><p>They&#039;re not gems and I&#039;m all over the place, no specific area it would seem.</p><p><br /></p><p>Counting backwards these are my favorite 10. Maybe not the best but I&#039;m learning.</p><p>#10</p><p>Makes the list only because it&#039;s my first Sestarius.</p><p>Faustina II, Juno</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566002[/ATTACH] </p><p>#9</p><p>Because it&#039;s a cool Carthage</p><p>Pegasus, date palm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566011[/ATTACH] </p><p>#8</p><p>Kolophon of Ionia suposed to be rare but I love the color of the patina.</p><p>Apollo head, palm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566018[/ATTACH] </p><p>#7</p><p>An Ae Follis</p><p>Maximinus II, Jupiter</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566019[/ATTACH] </p><p>#6</p><p>Another chocolate Follis</p><p>Constantine, Victory (from JA)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566020[/ATTACH] </p><p>#5</p><p>Ae Follis (recently)</p><p>Licinius, Genio (R2)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566022[/ATTACH] #4</p><p>This has to be on the list</p><p>Postumus, Pax.&nbsp; (from JA)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566025[/ATTACH] </p><p>#3</p><p>Another chocolate</p><p>VRBS Roma (from JA)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566029[/ATTACH] </p><p>#2</p><p>Hefty Tet, Alexandria</p><p>Diocletian, eagle (from JA)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566032[/ATTACH] </p><p>Finally my #1</p><p>I search for longer than I&#039;ve been collecting ancients for this one, that was affordable. It has a meaning close to my heart.</p><p>My eyes about popped out of my head when I saw this offered by JA.</p><p>Lydia, Apollonis</p><p>Head of young Herackles, Winged thunderbolt</p><p>[ATTACH=full]566035[/ATTACH] </p><p>Feel free to add. </p><p>Thanks for the help you all have given me.</p><p>There&#039;s a few of you that really helped me to make the decission to cross from many years of collecting moderns to ancients.</p><p>Without you I.don&#039;t think I would have done it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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