Good point. There was a huge upswing in hoarding especially in England in the late 3rd century. Am not particularly knowledgeable on Roman matters...
Even worse than that I fear. “The traditional reasons given for Roman coin hoarding tend to fall into two broad categories: emergency hoards...
Thanks for this. I sure cannot comment upon 500 years of Islamic history (I ain’t that clever). But here are a few thoughts on Al-Mu'tasim and...
Anyone know who is behind edhaje? "About" details are scant indeed: "Compilation of history of the world from another perspective" Yeah - but...
Hello Ross - yes - I think that was more or less Doug's correct point too. The real problems however are to do with quantifying varying scale...
Yes indeed. The near universal academic focus upon so called "bullion famines" has troubled me for 40 years or so. It seems to me a kind of less...
Absolutely not me Richard! I am all for criticism and welcome it. As I recall you expressed your opinion in a moderate and constructive way - so...
A rare event and cause for celebration :) Aside from cleaning (very many) such coins I have been paid by trade to clean their own (4 figure...
Your coin looks genuine to me - (with a little bit of horn silver very probably deriving from the host itself so do not clean) Sorry to say that...
For cleaning purposes I would say there are two kinds of coins with horn silver deposits A) Ones where the silver derives from the host coin...
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There is a drawing of it in this old paper here https://www.academia.edu/20430084/Dammas_Daniqs_and_Abd_al_Malik see type E Am told this paper...
Yes. Took a hasty look and think it is probably Sri Raiviha - Swat c. 700 AD (Fishman and Todd Y14.2) correctly listed RRR by them - so not a...
Yes – that is surely part of the story but I think there is more to it than that. Muhammad Khwarezm struck a lot of coins of a lot of types –...
On the shekel - well I am not strong on etymology and things are hectic here - so here is my off the cuff thought - please differ if you know more...
Facinating – thanks! - opens all kinds of doors Led me to this which I had not seen before...
This link https://www.pressrepublican.com/new...cle_ecdf15f9-8103-5154-8791-71e3526db74a.html leads to this in the UK 451: Unavailable due to...
Fascinating The only similar things I noticed are from Anglo Saxon graves dating to the 6th and 7th centuries. See Christopher Scull...
I agree - but things got hectic here so I have to be brief. A big problem is to do with a basic imbalance in the evidence. By their nature coins...
I have Pritzak on my desk - but for Noonan I have to rely upon memory - its quite a long time since I read him. Noonan looked at the massive flow...
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