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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8086483, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks again to all of you. This is turning out to be such a landslide for the top 3 (surprisingly, to me!) that I&#039;m getting ready to end the poll early, after only a few days. Not, of course, that the group&#039;s three favorites have to be my personal favorites, but I still find the results very interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of this moment, #1, with 21 votes, is the Trajan drachm with elephant quadriga:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/alexandria-trajan-elephant-quadriga-drachm-jpg.1403330/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And tied for #2, with 20 votes each, the Hadrian Nomes obol with Pharaoh and the Hadrian drachm with Sphinx:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/fontanille-coins-auction-96-july-2017-no-7-hadrian-pharaoh-alexandria-yr-11-jpg.1403333/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/combined-hadrian-sphinx-alexandria-jpg.1403338/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Way behind at #4, with 11 votes, is the Hadrian tetradrachm with serpent Agathodaemon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I could have made #&#039;s 11-15 part of the actual poll, but although the Philip II tetrassarion with Griffin and the Trajan Decius Antioch tet got the most &quot;write-in&quot; support, I doubt it would have changed the outcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a worthy top 3, if I do say so myself! What I found a bit surprising was how popular the Roman Egyptian drachms turned out to be, while none of the tetradrachms made the top 3. (My personal votes were for the elephant quadriga, the Nomes obol, and the mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, but obviously I&#039;m very fond of all of them!) I guess there&#039;s something about those big bronzes that people love, even if they&#039;re generally much more worn than the Roman Egyptian tetradrachms.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the top Roman Imperial and Ancient Greek poll, which has been up for 10 days now and I don&#039;t think is likely to change much either, the top 3 are -- no surprise! --</p><p><br /></p><p>#1, the runaway winner with 36 votes, the Aspendos stater:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hjb-sale-217-lot-132-aspendos-stater-version-2-jpg.1399781/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[GALLERY=media, 18273]Aspendos video from hjb by DonnaML posted Sep 23, 2021 at 10:22 PM[/GALLERY]</p><p><br /></p><p>#2, with 22 votes, the Honorius solidus:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/honorius-solidus-example-with-sear-certificate-high-contrast-jpg.1399822/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>#3, with 20 votes, the Titus denarius with elephant:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/titus-elephant-reverse-jpg-version-jpg.1399788/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(A close #4, with 19 votes, is the Nerva denarius with clasped hands.)</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a bit ironic, perhaps, that out of the 53 coins I&#039;ve posted on these lists (including the preliminary RR list), there isn&#039;t much question that the #1 coin of all of them is the one and only ancient Greek coin, the Aspendos stater. On the other hand, given how expensive really nice ancient Greek coins tend to be, if I&#039;d bought more of them this year, I couldn&#039;t have bought nearly as many Roman coins of all different types. Always a trade-off![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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