Parthia.com - Award Poll

[Pep]

http://www.parthia.com/

[Robert_Brenchley]

Actually I think this site deserves a numismatic award; its largely coin-oriented, and I attribute most of my Parthians here.

[Joe Sermarini]

I think we can let him chose the award he prefers?

BTW, I sure would like to get Chris Hopkins, the Parthia.com site owner, to be our moderator for the Parthian board.  I asked him a couple of times, but no luck.   If anyone is a friend of his, please talk him into it.  

[Pep]

It is a toss-up since his site is great in many directions but we need to give him the Numismatic Excellence award.  I reviewed this site too quickly from another's recommendation for Classical Studies and the hectic launch of the awards process.  Wow, I now know where to go if I have a Parthian coin!  I hate to be undemocratic but we need all sites that can help us to attribute our coins to be all together in the Numismatic Excellence thread for easy access.  Many sites that we will be considering will have some content good for our Classical Studies award as well as Numismatic Excellence but the latter is our default award for any site with good coin information.  Classical Studies is for sites with little to no numismatic information as decided by a recent poll.  I also need to add this to the rules document, which is a work in progress especially as the awards process begins.  Looks like an award for Numismatic Excellence will be headed your way soon Chris, congratulations!

Pep  

[Robert_Brenchley]

Totally agree; I use the site regularly for attribution; its great for silver, not so good (yet) for bronze. If anone comes across any Parthian bronze out there, please let me know!

[helvetica]

I believe Chris is very busy with some books at the moment. I mentioned the forum - and some postings - to him a couple of times but the poor chap never has enough hours in a day. A bit like Dave of Wildwinds, I think. Work, hobby, website, family, seminars, sleeping - not necessarily in that order  

[Pep]

This is a reply from the owner of this site:
"
Dear Kevin,
 
I've won the FORVM Award for Numismatic Excellence? How marvelous! It is very nice to receive formal recognition of the effort expended making Parthia.com an educational and authoritative web site. Please extend my thanks to the members of the FORVM Classical Discussion Board for conferring this honor.
...
Thank you also for your invitation to join the FORVM discussion list. I am a already member as "Charax" but, regrettably, my many obligations prevent me from being an active participant in the discussions. I resolve to increase my participation.
 
Thank you again for the honor.
 
Best regards,
 
Chris Hopkins
"