Sometimes it happens - you look from a different angle at some well known coin published in many works and suddenly you realize that it might be something else entirely. What will be your course of action? As a scientist (in the field of genomics, not in numismatics or ancient history, but after all science is a science ) I did what I am trained to do: wrote a paper. It has been published online yesterday, have a look: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/ozean/article/view/3016 PDF looks way better than html by the way. Post your coins that are actually not what everyone thinks they are!
I did and I read it. It is well-reasoned and convincing. It could make a paper publication if submitted to a numismatic journal such as the American Journal of Numismatics.
Brilliant, @Factor. Wish I could contribute, but, Oops, I don't have the pics (unless they're somewhere stupid on the hard drive), and anyway, it's medieval.
Congrats @Factor - This is a well-researched and convincing paper, and this sort of work is extremely important. It really shows the importance of paying very close attention to the coins and looking for things others may have missed. Hopefully this will be the first of many for you.
Fantastic work and very much the right approach to take! Numismatics is such a rewarding hobby because it is a rich field that offers all of us the opportunity to make new discoveries like this. I am continually amazed by how lucky we are to be able to discover something new about these very old coins.
Thank you! I was actually considering submitting it there but decided that the scope of my paper fits OZeAN better. It is a peer reviewed but free online journal that anyone can access, and its senior editor is Prof. Achim Lichtenberger, one of the most prominent specialists in middle eastern city coins.
Well done! Open access is a boon to all. Knowledge should not be behind a paywall and thus limited to the few. There is enough evidence in the world today that ivory towers should be a thing of the past.
Maybe send it to @Nicholas Molinari, for the next issue of Koinon - The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies!
Many thanks, @Factor, for the 'heads up' about this being open source! ...You Europeans are just So Civilized.....
It will have to be next time since it is already published—it looks like he found the perfect home for it already
