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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2993500, member: 56859&quot;]The Pantheon project&#039;s listing order was created by a certain algorithm.&nbsp; By the terms of that algorithm, the list is presumably &quot;accurate&quot;.&nbsp; That algorithm doesn&#039;t really have any meaning on CoinTalk though (other than to create a fun pile-on thread).&nbsp; Perhaps I am trying to force my own label on the list (&quot;Most Important Historical Figures&quot;) and that really isn&#039;t what their algorithm measured, so my harsh assessment of the list is probably unfair.</p><p><br /></p><p>I modified the list to make it easier to see the timeframe of interest to me (ancient coins).&nbsp; The non-ancient names muddy the water since my knowledge of most of those people is scanty, so for ease of examination I rewrote the list, ending at the fall of the Roman empire.&nbsp; I left on some unfamiliar Eastern folks simply because they are in the early time period.</p><p><br /></p><p>I removed people who did not <i>issue</i> coins, although perhaps those should have been retained (Agrippa, Pontius Pilate, Buddha)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what remains, and the absurdity of order (in the context of &quot;most important historical figures&quot;) is easier to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]739172[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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