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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3258363, member: 96898"]That's a splendid selection of coins – thank you for showing them and sharing your reasons for putting them on your top ten list! Also, congratulations on what seems to have been a fantastic collecting year. Your beautiful half Leeuwendaaler and your Metz gross have immense eye appeal, but the two coins that truly stand out to me are your Cologne obol and the Metz denier in your runners-up list. These would be my definitive favourites. As a small tribute to them, and since this thread needs more pictures, here is another medieval prince-bishop: [ATTACH=full]856617[/ATTACH]Bishop Johann II. Senn von Münsingen, Prince-Bishopric of Basel, Angster ("vierzipfliger Pfennig"), 1335–1365 AD. Obv: head of a bishop wearing mitre (three pellets at each side) left, between B-A, ring above. Rev: negative design (bracteate). 17–20mm, 0.33g. Ref: Wielandt: Basler Münzprägung (1971), no. 117; HMZ 255; Catalogue Wüthrich, no 31; Berger: Brakteaten (1993/6), no. 2415–2416.[/QUOTE]