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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8082919, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks so much for all the enthusiastic responses! I was a bit concerned last night that nobody would feel that way -- that they wouldn&#039;t &quot;get it&quot; about Provincials -- and that I shouldn&#039;t have even posted these. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m glad so many like the Trajan elephants and the Hadrian Sphinx and Pharaoh and mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris reverses, plus the Philip II Griffin. I&#039;m very fond of them myself! As I am of all of them. The special thing about the Nomes Obol to me is that to the best of my knowledge it&#039;s the <u>only</u> ancient coin portraying an Egyptian Pharaoh, looking exactly as we expect one to look, as [USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER] points out. It&#039;s fascinating to me to realize that Amenemhat III was as ancient in Hadrian&#039;s time as Hadrian&#039;s time is to us. And yet he was still being worshipped in the Arsinoite Nome. (See the link I posted to the remainder of the footnote for that coin.) </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure I&#039;m not the only person who&#039;s noticed that Hadrians are by far the most common Roman Egyptian coins on the market, even though I believe that Antoninus Pius issued just as many. By contrast, I rarely see Trajans, and almost never a Marcus Aurelius. So it shouldn&#039;t be a surprise that I posted so many in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far, I&#039;ve posted 1 Greek coin, 19 Imperials, and 15 Provincials on my &quot;top 10&quot; lists. That&#039;s out of 73 ancient coins purchased in 2021 (with the possibility of one or two more) -- a lot, but half as many as last year, when I was still engaged a bit in my initial &quot;one coin per emperor&quot; quest. So I&#039;ve already listed as favorites almost half of the coins I&#039;ve bought this year, before even posting my favorite Roman Republicans. But if one chooses carefully, is it so surprising that half one&#039;s purchases end up as &quot;favorites&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for my favorite Roman Republicans, as I explained before, I&#039;m waiting to make my decisions until I see if I succeed in one more bid at an auction taking place in a few days. I&#039;m not optimistic, but who knows? As of now, I&#039;ve bought 23 Roman Republican coins this year out of the total of 65 I own, and out of my 73 coin purchases in 2021. So I doubt that I&#039;ll be posting 20 of them as favorites, as [USER=113500]@El Cazador[/USER] was hoping!&nbsp; 15, perhaps. Which would make an even 50 favorite coins this year. I think I posted 40 last year![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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