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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2602599, member: 56859&quot;]Wow, what a year.&nbsp; Numismatically it was awesome.&nbsp; Everything else... not so much.&nbsp; I&#039;m so behind and disorganized that even reviewing my 2016 purchases took a ridiculous amount of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Narrowing down the haul to a &quot;top ten&quot;?&nbsp; Not gonna happen <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Instead, here are composite pictures of the 2016 coins, arranged by general category. Normally I&#039;d put the attribution for each coin with every picture but that&#039;s just too much work this morning <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; If you have questions about a particular coin I&#039;d be happy to fill in the details.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m always enthusiastic about Greek coins and this year I picked up some amazing coins, including a Bruttium Amphitrite wearing a crab hat, an electrum Pigasus, an early style Ptolemy I Soter tetradrachm, and many others.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568336[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It was a big year for Roman Egyptian coins.&nbsp; The latter portion of the year brought an unexpected delight:&nbsp; two sales of some ex-Dattari coins.&nbsp; They may not have been the prettiest of Roman Egyptian coins but having old pedigree plate coins is always desirable.&nbsp; I added many coins with Egypt-specific reverses.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568337[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Provincials offer a wide array of unusual reverses and this year brought some fantastic types, especially the first five on this composite:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568341[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As usual, I didn&#039;t seek out many Roman Imperials but the few I did get are delightful.&nbsp; The year brought some fantastic Republican and Imperatorials too <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568343[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to go do some family stuff but later today I&#039;ll try to extract my favorites from these coins and if I have time, I&#039;ll list brief attributions for each of the coins shown on the composites.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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