No problem here staying chilled - but am not sure there are all that many uncontested facts to go on. Thomas Noonan seems to be the main guy who...
As I feared - I rather think that puts paid to the possibility of amicable dispassionate scholarly discussion on these matters. Well, if anyone...
QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4594506, member: 110350"] As I said before, of course, I don't really care one way or the other if it's ultimately proven...
Let me know if you want to swap it for a Rum Seljuq Lion and Sun (joke) :)
Interesting thread. Here is a missing textual element that I think might be relevant? It is from the ‘Book of Roads’ written in 836 AD by Ibn...
Total history would be the sum of trillions of acts by billions of people over millennia. So massive simplifications to get to generalisations...
I have been looking at Bar Kokhba weights recently – so will post some rather tantalising ideas - in case anyone has any reaction Here are a...
Yes - As far as I can discover Egypt and Ancient Persia were using weights (for trade?) by 3,000 BC. Indus valley by 2,600 BC. [We still seem to...
Interesting questions – I looked into this about 15 years back – Have not heard that anything new has come up since, has anyone seen recent new...
As I recall Alexander is recorded as surprised to be paid out by Taxiles in coin. If so it tell us that India was already using coin before...
I would rather say the ancient world tends to look more like the world before the suspension of gold convertibility during WWI. And the UK attempt...
Seems at least plausible. Howgego claims hard evidence that Diocletian overvalued his imperial silver by 60%, and that his nummus might be 185%...
Many thanks for the clarification. It seems to me that Mayhew here is - in general terms - completely rejecting the sort of theory that lay behind...
Many thanks indeed! - the second quote looks like it is probably from Mayhew - perhaps the first one is too? Would be most grateful for the...
Seems like we were doing the same sort of thing, perhaps about the same time. I was already fixed on Mitchiner's Ancient and Classical world...
Yes – I agree up to a point. I suppose I would put my amateur opinion this way - China had a shot at what we might call ‘the full Keynsian’ around...
As I understand it the initial ('Greek') Cistophoric issues weighed 3 Attic Drachms but was tariffed at 4 Attic drachms. Since there were there...
Just found this new book - at GBP 120 I will not be investing in a copy - but if anyone has access I would be pleased to get thoughts (it claims...
True - but also (and I think something rather like this is going on with Butcher concerning these Cappadocian coins): "It ain’t what you don’t...
I know next to nothing about this coinage - but I dug out my NC for 1992 for the article by Butcher "Rhodian Drachms" which seems to be a fairly...
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