Thank you - v useful link. I saw that coin at Naville and wondered why it had that big scrape.
So is a 'scoop' where the mint removes metal from overweight coins?
I have a nice one too, with a more ragged flan than yours. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Does anyone know what discount they get? When buyer's premium was first introduced in the 1960s the trade was up in arms and even took the...
Living in London means I can collect in person from a few auctioneers and recently I was thanked for paying so promptly. Auctioneer went on to...
The moneyer who commissioned the design, the designer, the die engravers and the people who actually spent the coins might all have had different...
I've bid on plenty, but yet to win one. Some of the JCs are really attractive even in lower grades. And I even prefer the Aeneas and Anchises in...
Bargain! Particularly strong detail on obverse & nice toning.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] For personal reasons this is probably my proudest acquisition in H1. I started collecting after inheriting my father's...
'Pertinax' is always my first-choice auction ID. But I've never actually used it, because it's always been taken :-(
Late reply but I just got this in the post after ordering on your recommendation, and devoured it. It really is excellent. Picture books are a...
Was it just that gold was used for international trade? Can't gain by debasing when trading abroad so need to maintain standards.
Nice coins and nice title. I think mine should be called 'The Stoic Collection'. I know you focus on Norman. How do you choose your other coins?...
In fairness the argument that there was no great fall and the dark ages weren't so dark was popularised by Peter Brown back in the 1970s, so I...
Oh, and quite tangential but I found Aldo Schiavone on Roman slavery revelatory on this question.
I'll need to look for specific references. In broad terms I'm thinking about some of the popular broad civilisational histories, a lot of work on...
I think we all define it as the stuff we can't afford, so it's flexible;-)
That is the view I most disagree with. And I think the academic debate has moved away from it too. It's been popularised by some smart people -...
Sure, economics has plenty to say about it. It's hard to generalise from markets in very rare or unique items, and lots of challenge to data, so...
Tragic unintended but obvious consequence of bad laws. The UK went another route, and here finds are meticulously recorded. There's little cost to...
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