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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2993391, member: 83845"][ATTACH=full]739065[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently came across a project started at MIT called <i>Pantheon</i> [1] that ranks historical figures by what the study terms “cultural production.” The study uses a custom algorithm to rank a list of 10,967 people who were born between the years 4,000 BC and AD 2010 that meet the requirements for inclusion into the project. You can learn more about the methods used to compile the list <a href="http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/methods" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/methods" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>While looking through the list I thought it would be a fun exercise to filter the results by individuals who produced ancient or medieval coins. Listed below are the parameters I used to produce my altered list.</p><ul> <li>I have defined ancient and medieval very broadly in this list as spanning the period from the invention of coinage ca. 650 BC to the beginning of the transition away from hammered (struck) coinage ca. 1600 (a rather arbitrary end date really).</li> <li>Individuals included must have issued coins under their own authority or else have been depicted on a coin in a position of authority during or shortly after their lifetime.</li> <li>Names marked with * are to denote an individual whose issuance of coinage is either disputed or whose association with a coinage is in some other way unorthodox.</li> <li>In some cases I was unable to find enough data on whether an individual issued coins and so I have made judgement calls or included a (?) to denote this uncertainty.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><b><u>List of Top 100 Culturally Significant Coin Issuers </u></b></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The first number is the rank of the person on the list of coin issuers only, then the name of the person and finally in parenthesis is the rank of the person in the full MIT list.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 - Alexander the Great (5)</p><p><br /></p><p>2 - Julius Caesar (8)</p><p><br /></p><p>3 - Pythagoras* (10)</p><p><br /></p><p>4 - Charlemagne (17)</p><p><br /></p><p>5 - Augustus (20)</p><p><br /></p><p>6 - Gautama Buddha* (28)</p><p><br /></p><p>7 - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (29)</p><p><br /></p><p>8 - Nero (37)</p><p><br /></p><p>9 - Genghis Khan (44)</p><p><br /></p><p>10 - Hannibal Barca (46)</p><p><br /></p><p>11 - Qin Shi Huang (54)</p><p><br /></p><p>12 - Caligula (57)</p><p><br /></p><p>13 - Marcus Aurelius (63)</p><p><br /></p><p>14 - Saladin (76)</p><p><br /></p><p>15 - Trajan (82)</p><p><br /></p><p>16 - Elizabeth I of England (88)</p><p><br /></p><p>17 - Hadrian (105)</p><p><br /></p><p>18 - Mark Antony (107)</p><p><br /></p><p>19 - Constantine I (120)</p><p><br /></p><p>20 - Xerxes I of Persia (124)</p><p><br /></p><p>21 - Tiberius (125)</p><p><br /></p><p>22 - Diocletian (131)</p><p><br /></p><p>23 - Henry VIII of England (134)</p><p><br /></p><p>24 - Justinian I (142)</p><p><br /></p><p>25 - Cyrus the Great (147)</p><p><br /></p><p>26 - Commodus (149)</p><p><br /></p><p>27 - Darius I of Persia (154)</p><p><br /></p><p>28 - Theodosius I (159)</p><p><br /></p><p>29 - Solon* (161)</p><p><br /></p><p>30 - Vespasian (174)</p><p><br /></p><p>31 - Suleiman the Magnificent (180)</p><p><br /></p><p>32 - Timur (201)</p><p><br /></p><p>33 - Claudius (202)</p><p><br /></p><p>34 - Clovis I* (223)</p><p><br /></p><p>35 - Philip II of Macedon (225)</p><p><br /></p><p>36 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (226)</p><p><br /></p><p>37 - Pompey (234)</p><p><br /></p><p>38 - Septimius Severus (236)</p><p><br /></p><p>39 - Antoninus Pius (240)</p><p><br /></p><p>40 - Caracalla (246)</p><p><br /></p><p>41 - William Wallace* (?) (250)</p><p><br /></p><p>42 - Vercingetorix* (253)</p><p><br /></p><p>43 - Charles Martel (263)</p><p><br /></p><p>44 - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (266)</p><p><br /></p><p>45 - Pyrrhus of Epirus (267)</p><p><br /></p><p>46 - Marcus Junius Brutus (271)</p><p><br /></p><p>47 - Romulus Augustus (273)</p><p><br /></p><p>48 - Richard I of England (283)</p><p><br /></p><p>49 - Lucius Cornelius Sulla (284)</p><p><br /></p><p>50 - Pontius Pilate* (286)</p><p><br /></p><p>51 - Mary I of Scotland (293)</p><p><br /></p><p>52 - Darius III of Persia (297)</p><p><br /></p><p>53 - Cao Cao(?) (303)</p><p><br /></p><p>54 - Guan Yu(?) (314)</p><p><br /></p><p>55 - Herod the Great (329)</p><p><br /></p><p>56 - Pippin the Younger (331)</p><p><br /></p><p>57 - Oliver Cromwell (339)</p><p><br /></p><p>58 - Ptolemy I Soter (341)</p><p><br /></p><p>59 - Gaius Marius (345)</p><p><br /></p><p>60 - Kublai Khan (346)</p><p><br /></p><p>61 - Otho (349)</p><p><br /></p><p>62 - Hugh Capet of France (353)</p><p><br /></p><p>63 - Vitellius (355)</p><p><br /></p><p>64 - Galba (360)</p><p><br /></p><p>65 - Oda Nobunaga (363)</p><p><br /></p><p>66 - Odoacer (364)</p><p><br /></p><p>67 - Titus (376)</p><p><br /></p><p>68 - Philip II of Spain (378)</p><p><br /></p><p>69 - Ivan IV of Russia (379)</p><p><br /></p><p>70 - Louis the Pious (391)</p><p><br /></p><p>71 - Mary I of England (400)</p><p><br /></p><p>72 - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (428)</p><p><br /></p><p>73 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (429)</p><p><br /></p><p>74 - Valerian (431)</p><p><br /></p><p>75 - John of England (438)</p><p><br /></p><p>76 - Aurelian (445)</p><p><br /></p><p>77 - Jovian (464)</p><p><br /></p><p>78 - Alcibiades* (465)</p><p><br /></p><p>79 - Mehmed II (468)</p><p><br /></p><p>80 - Constantius Chlorus (473)</p><p><br /></p><p>81 - Theodoric the Great (489)</p><p><br /></p><p>82 - Gallienus (490)</p><p><br /></p><p>83 - Croesus (496)</p><p><br /></p><p>84 - Liu Bei (501)</p><p><br /></p><p>85 - Philip IV of France (518)</p><p><br /></p><p>86 - Louis IX of France (533)</p><p><br /></p><p>87 - Macrinus (537)</p><p><br /></p><p>88 - Honorius (544)</p><p><br /></p><p>89 - Godfrey of Bouillon (546)</p><p><br /></p><p>90 - Constantius II (551)</p><p><br /></p><p>91 - William the Conqueror (558)</p><p><br /></p><p>92 - Decius (561)</p><p><br /></p><p>93 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (571)</p><p><br /></p><p>94 - Ashoka (592)</p><p><br /></p><p>95 - Gordian III (604)</p><p><br /></p><p>96 - Hamilcar Barca (615)</p><p><br /></p><p>97 - Arcadius (623)</p><p><br /></p><p>98 - Julius Nepos (637)</p><p><br /></p><p>99 - Cardinal Richelieu (647)</p><p><br /></p><p>100 - Alexander Severus (651)</p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><b><u>Highest Ranking Male Historical Figure in my Collection</u></b></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander III the Great is unsurprisingly the top name on this list. While I do have a posthumous portrait of Alexander on my Lysimachus tetradrachm that meets the basic requirements of the parameters I laid out above I felt that since Alexander minted coins during his life (I don’t have one still <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) I would skip down the list and count my first coin issued during the life of the individual: Augustus! Augustus comes in at 5th on the list of coin issuers and a respectable 20th in the full list. This coin is also a double whammy because I get credit for number 44 on the list as well (Agrippa!).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]739069[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Roman Empire</font></p><p><font size="3">Augustus & Agrippa</font></p><p><font size="3">AE Dupondius, Nemausus mint, struck ca. AD 10-14</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 26 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 12.3 g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: IMP: Augustus, laureate bust right; Agrippa, bust left wearing rostral crown</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: COL - NEM: Crocodile chained to palm tree</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: RPC I 525</font></p><p><i><font size="3">Ex JAZ Numismatics</font></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><u><b>Highest Ranking Female Historical Figure in my Collection</b></u></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Elizabeth I is the 2nd most culturally significant women to issue coins according to the above list and 7th most significant woman in all of history according to the full MIT list. Female historical figures make up just 4% of the top 100 coin issuers and only 12.85% of the full list.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]739070[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">England, Tudor Dynasty</font></p><p><font size="3">Elizabeth I (1558-1603)</font></p><p><font size="3">AR Sixpence, London mint, Struck 1575</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 16 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 2.92</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: ELIZABETH D G ANF FR ET HI REGINA: Crowned bust left</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV: long cross over arms with date above</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: Seaby 2563</font></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><u><b>My Favorite Coin from the List</b></u></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Ptolemy I Soter comes in 58th on the list but #1 in terms of coins I like the most. I haven't gotten around to doing a full write up on this coin yet but I did include some notes on why I like this coin <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/curtisimos-2017-an-overview-and-top-10.307792/#post-2941883" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/curtisimos-2017-an-overview-and-top-10.307792/#post-2941883">here</a>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]739073[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt</font></p><p><font size="3">Ptolemy I Soter, (305-282 BC)</font></p><p><font size="3">AR Tetradrachm, Alexandria mint, struck ca. 300-285 BC</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 26 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 14.13 g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck. Δ behind ear</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ eagle with closed wings standing on thunderbolt. P above monogram ΠΑΡ</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: Noesje 41-42. SNG Copenhagen 70-71. Svoronos 255</font></p><p><font size="3"><i>Ex W.F. Stoecklin, Ex Karl Steiner (1940s), signed by Delta.</i></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><b><u><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><br /></span></font></u></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><u><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080">Top 25 Culturally Significant People in all Fields</span></font></u></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>1 - Aristotle</p><p><br /></p><p>2 - Plato</p><p><br /></p><p>3 - Jesus Christ</p><p><br /></p><p>4 - Socrates</p><p><br /></p><p>5 - Alexander the Great</p><p><br /></p><p>6 - Leonardo da Vinci</p><p><br /></p><p>7 - Confucius</p><p><br /></p><p>8 - Julius Caesar</p><p><br /></p><p>9 - Homer</p><p><br /></p><p>10 - Pythagoras</p><p><br /></p><p>11 - Archimedes</p><p><br /></p><p>12 - Moses</p><p><br /></p><p>13 - Muhammad</p><p><br /></p><p>14 - Abraham</p><p><br /></p><p>15 - Adolf Hitler</p><p><br /></p><p>16 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</p><p><br /></p><p>17 - Charlemagne</p><p><br /></p><p>18 - William Shakespeare</p><p><br /></p><p>19 - Michelangelo</p><p><br /></p><p>20 - Augustus</p><p><br /></p><p>21 - Napoleon Bonaparte</p><p><br /></p><p>22 - Isaac Newton</p><p><br /></p><p>23 - Albert Einstein</p><p><br /></p><p>24 - Christopher Columbus</p><p><br /></p><p>25 - Johann Sebastian Bach</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><u><b>Modern Coins Showing Significant Ancient People</b></u></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see Ancient Greece is well represented at the top of the full list. I’ll admit that I really enjoy collecting the modern coins produced by Greece that depict the heroes from their ancient past. Here are a handful of relevant examples.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="5">No. 1 - Aristotle:</font></b> One of the most influential thinkers of all time. He lived during one of the most interesting times in history and even served as a tutor for Alexander III the Great!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739072[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><b><b>...................................</b></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>No. 5 - Alexander III:</b></font> This man needs no introduction. I really like the modern Greek coin shown below. If you want to learn more about the ancient coin that this design was modeled on see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/is-this-what-alexander-the-great-looked-like-a-diadochi-tetradrachm.294408/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/is-this-what-alexander-the-great-looked-like-a-diadochi-tetradrachm.294408/">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739076[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="5"><b><b><b>...................................</b></b></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>No. 9 - Homer:</b></font> He composed perhaps the most influential pieces of literature in all of western history; The Illiad and the Odyssey. These were the first works ever written in the Greek language and it is possible that the popularity of the oral epic led to the formation of written Greek! Plus they are good bed time reading <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739077[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b><b>...................................</b></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>No. 161 - Solon:</b></font> While he did not invent Athenian democracy his moderate and far sited reforms made it possible!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739079[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #808080"><u><b>Please Post Historical Figures from your Collection!</b></u></span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Lets see how many historical figures we can get from the list. Some of them I left in knowing that coinage associated with that person was disputed but I wonder if we can get all of the straight forward ones? Either way please... <font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>POST YOUR SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL FIGURES!</b></span></font></p><p><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></font></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><font size="6"><b>Edit: </b></font></span><b><font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">Don't see someone you think should have made the list? Feel free to post your coins of these individuals and tell us where you would have placed them!</span></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[1] Yu, A. Z., et al. (2016). Pantheon 1.0, a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies. <i>Scientific Data</i> 2:150075. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.75</p><p><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="6"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 2993391, member: 83845"][ATTACH=full]739065[/ATTACH] I recently came across a project started at MIT called [I]Pantheon[/I] [1] that ranks historical figures by what the study terms “cultural production.” The study uses a custom algorithm to rank a list of 10,967 people who were born between the years 4,000 BC and AD 2010 that meet the requirements for inclusion into the project. You can learn more about the methods used to compile the list [URL='http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/methods']here[/URL]. While looking through the list I thought it would be a fun exercise to filter the results by individuals who produced ancient or medieval coins. Listed below are the parameters I used to produce my altered list. [LIST] [*]I have defined ancient and medieval very broadly in this list as spanning the period from the invention of coinage ca. 650 BC to the beginning of the transition away from hammered (struck) coinage ca. 1600 (a rather arbitrary end date really). [*]Individuals included must have issued coins under their own authority or else have been depicted on a coin in a position of authority during or shortly after their lifetime. [*]Names marked with * are to denote an individual whose issuance of coinage is either disputed or whose association with a coinage is in some other way unorthodox. [*]In some cases I was unable to find enough data on whether an individual issued coins and so I have made judgement calls or included a (?) to denote this uncertainty. [/LIST] [CENTER][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080][B][U]List of Top 100 Culturally Significant Coin Issuers [/U][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] The first number is the rank of the person on the list of coin issuers only, then the name of the person and finally in parenthesis is the rank of the person in the full MIT list. 1 - Alexander the Great (5) 2 - Julius Caesar (8) 3 - Pythagoras* (10) 4 - Charlemagne (17) 5 - Augustus (20) 6 - Gautama Buddha* (28) 7 - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (29) 8 - Nero (37) 9 - Genghis Khan (44) 10 - Hannibal Barca (46) 11 - Qin Shi Huang (54) 12 - Caligula (57) 13 - Marcus Aurelius (63) 14 - Saladin (76) 15 - Trajan (82) 16 - Elizabeth I of England (88) 17 - Hadrian (105) 18 - Mark Antony (107) 19 - Constantine I (120) 20 - Xerxes I of Persia (124) 21 - Tiberius (125) 22 - Diocletian (131) 23 - Henry VIII of England (134) 24 - Justinian I (142) 25 - Cyrus the Great (147) 26 - Commodus (149) 27 - Darius I of Persia (154) 28 - Theodosius I (159) 29 - Solon* (161) 30 - Vespasian (174) 31 - Suleiman the Magnificent (180) 32 - Timur (201) 33 - Claudius (202) 34 - Clovis I* (223) 35 - Philip II of Macedon (225) 36 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (226) 37 - Pompey (234) 38 - Septimius Severus (236) 39 - Antoninus Pius (240) 40 - Caracalla (246) 41 - William Wallace* (?) (250) 42 - Vercingetorix* (253) 43 - Charles Martel (263) 44 - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (266) 45 - Pyrrhus of Epirus (267) 46 - Marcus Junius Brutus (271) 47 - Romulus Augustus (273) 48 - Richard I of England (283) 49 - Lucius Cornelius Sulla (284) 50 - Pontius Pilate* (286) 51 - Mary I of Scotland (293) 52 - Darius III of Persia (297) 53 - Cao Cao(?) (303) 54 - Guan Yu(?) (314) 55 - Herod the Great (329) 56 - Pippin the Younger (331) 57 - Oliver Cromwell (339) 58 - Ptolemy I Soter (341) 59 - Gaius Marius (345) 60 - Kublai Khan (346) 61 - Otho (349) 62 - Hugh Capet of France (353) 63 - Vitellius (355) 64 - Galba (360) 65 - Oda Nobunaga (363) 66 - Odoacer (364) 67 - Titus (376) 68 - Philip II of Spain (378) 69 - Ivan IV of Russia (379) 70 - Louis the Pious (391) 71 - Mary I of England (400) 72 - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (428) 73 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (429) 74 - Valerian (431) 75 - John of England (438) 76 - Aurelian (445) 77 - Jovian (464) 78 - Alcibiades* (465) 79 - Mehmed II (468) 80 - Constantius Chlorus (473) 81 - Theodoric the Great (489) 82 - Gallienus (490) 83 - Croesus (496) 84 - Liu Bei (501) 85 - Philip IV of France (518) 86 - Louis IX of France (533) 87 - Macrinus (537) 88 - Honorius (544) 89 - Godfrey of Bouillon (546) 90 - Constantius II (551) 91 - William the Conqueror (558) 92 - Decius (561) 93 - Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (571) 94 - Ashoka (592) 95 - Gordian III (604) 96 - Hamilcar Barca (615) 97 - Arcadius (623) 98 - Julius Nepos (637) 99 - Cardinal Richelieu (647) 100 - Alexander Severus (651) [CENTER][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080] [B][U]Highest Ranking Male Historical Figure in my Collection[/U][/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] Alexander III the Great is unsurprisingly the top name on this list. While I do have a posthumous portrait of Alexander on my Lysimachus tetradrachm that meets the basic requirements of the parameters I laid out above I felt that since Alexander minted coins during his life (I don’t have one still :facepalm::oops:) I would skip down the list and count my first coin issued during the life of the individual: Augustus! Augustus comes in at 5th on the list of coin issuers and a respectable 20th in the full list. This coin is also a double whammy because I get credit for number 44 on the list as well (Agrippa!). [ATTACH=full]739069[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Roman Empire Augustus & Agrippa AE Dupondius, Nemausus mint, struck ca. AD 10-14 Dia.: 26 mm Wt.: 12.3 g Obv.: IMP: Augustus, laureate bust right; Agrippa, bust left wearing rostral crown Rev.: COL - NEM: Crocodile chained to palm tree Ref.: RPC I 525[/SIZE] [I][SIZE=3]Ex JAZ Numismatics[/SIZE][/I] [CENTER][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080] [U][B]Highest Ranking Female Historical Figure in my Collection[/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] Elizabeth I is the 2nd most culturally significant women to issue coins according to the above list and 7th most significant woman in all of history according to the full MIT list. Female historical figures make up just 4% of the top 100 coin issuers and only 12.85% of the full list. [ATTACH=full]739070[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]England, Tudor Dynasty Elizabeth I (1558-1603) AR Sixpence, London mint, Struck 1575 Dia.: 16 mm Wt.: 2.92 Obv.: ELIZABETH D G ANF FR ET HI REGINA: Crowned bust left Rev.: POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV: long cross over arms with date above Ref.: Seaby 2563[/SIZE] [CENTER][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080][U][B]My Favorite Coin from the List[/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] Ptolemy I Soter comes in 58th on the list but #1 in terms of coins I like the most. I haven't gotten around to doing a full write up on this coin yet but I did include some notes on why I like this coin [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/curtisimos-2017-an-overview-and-top-10.307792/#post-2941883']here[/URL]. [ATTACH=full]739073[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt Ptolemy I Soter, (305-282 BC) AR Tetradrachm, Alexandria mint, struck ca. 300-285 BC Dia.: 26 mm Wt.: 14.13 g Obv.: Diademed head of Ptolemy I right, wearing aegis around neck. Δ behind ear Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ eagle with closed wings standing on thunderbolt. P above monogram ΠΑΡ Ref.: Noesje 41-42. SNG Copenhagen 70-71. Svoronos 255 [I]Ex W.F. Stoecklin, Ex Karl Steiner (1940s), signed by Delta.[/I][/SIZE] [CENTER][B][U][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080] Top 25 Culturally Significant People in all Fields[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/B] [/CENTER] 1 - Aristotle 2 - Plato 3 - Jesus Christ 4 - Socrates 5 - Alexander the Great 6 - Leonardo da Vinci 7 - Confucius 8 - Julius Caesar 9 - Homer 10 - Pythagoras 11 - Archimedes 12 - Moses 13 - Muhammad 14 - Abraham 15 - Adolf Hitler 16 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 17 - Charlemagne 18 - William Shakespeare 19 - Michelangelo 20 - Augustus 21 - Napoleon Bonaparte 22 - Isaac Newton 23 - Albert Einstein 24 - Christopher Columbus 25 - Johann Sebastian Bach [CENTER][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080][U][B]Modern Coins Showing Significant Ancient People[/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] As you can see Ancient Greece is well represented at the top of the full list. I’ll admit that I really enjoy collecting the modern coins produced by Greece that depict the heroes from their ancient past. Here are a handful of relevant examples. [B][SIZE=5]No. 1 - Aristotle:[/SIZE][/B] One of the most influential thinkers of all time. He lived during one of the most interesting times in history and even served as a tutor for Alexander III the Great! [ATTACH=full]739072[/ATTACH] [CENTER][SIZE=5][B][B]...................................[/B][/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=5][B]No. 5 - Alexander III:[/B][/SIZE] This man needs no introduction. I really like the modern Greek coin shown below. If you want to learn more about the ancient coin that this design was modeled on see [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/is-this-what-alexander-the-great-looked-like-a-diadochi-tetradrachm.294408/']here[/URL]. [ATTACH=full]739076[/ATTACH] [CENTER][SIZE=5][B][B][B]...................................[/B][/B][/B][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=5] [B]No. 9 - Homer:[/B][/SIZE] He composed perhaps the most influential pieces of literature in all of western history; The Illiad and the Odyssey. These were the first works ever written in the Greek language and it is possible that the popularity of the oral epic led to the formation of written Greek! Plus they are good bed time reading :smuggrin: [ATTACH=full]739077[/ATTACH] [CENTER][B][B]...................................[/B][/B][/CENTER] [SIZE=5][B]No. 161 - Solon:[/B][/SIZE] While he did not invent Athenian democracy his moderate and far sited reforms made it possible! [ATTACH=full]739079[/ATTACH] [CENTER][SIZE=6][COLOR=#808080][U][B]Please Post Historical Figures from your Collection![/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER] Lets see how many historical figures we can get from the list. Some of them I left in knowing that coinage associated with that person was disputed but I wonder if we can get all of the straight forward ones? Either way please... [SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000][B]POST YOUR SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL FIGURES![/B] [/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#ff0000][SIZE=6][B]Edit: [/B][/SIZE][/COLOR][B][SIZE=6][COLOR=rgb(255, 0, 0)]Don't see someone you think should have made the list? Feel free to post your coins of these individuals and tell us where you would have placed them![/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [1] Yu, A. Z., et al. (2016). Pantheon 1.0, a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies. [I]Scientific Data[/I] 2:150075. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.75 [SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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