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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2732024, member: 19463&quot;]We have seen a lot of owls here on CT but very few have any claim at all on being good for the type let alone good as compared to some of the other choices.&nbsp; Certainly there is a lot of opinion variation on what is good and bad.&nbsp; I see very few Republicans that I consider overall good art but plenty that are nice for their type and era.&nbsp; The same goes for late Roman.&nbsp; I prefer to see this challenge as a place to show coins that are pleasing for their type and not hold it against a coin because it does not conform to that period of history we each consider to be of finest art.&nbsp; I remember a time when my art friends were putting down the previous generation&#039;s love for the statue Apollo Belvedere.&nbsp; The new period that was cool was earlier, even Archaic, rather like the same time saw musicians abandoning Tchaikovsky in favor of Bach.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My coins that strike me as good for one reason or another:</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the Tetrarchy but also because of colors scattered here and there:</p><p>Diocletian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]621430[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of Parthia but also for retaining black in recesses in a pleasing way:</p><p>Mithradates II</p><p>[ATTACH=full]621435[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of Syracuse but mostly for being a hair under 10mm in diameter:</p><p>a hemilitron for the die work, not preservation</p><p>[ATTACH=full]621440[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For the Severan period and making a silk purse out of a spoiled brat:</p><p>Caracalla Caesar (die work)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]621444[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>...and finally, in Non-Classical, the most efficient use of the fewest lines to represent a horse:</p><p>Muhammad Qarlugh</p><p>[ATTACH=full]621452[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yup![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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