Yes – of course that is true. But it does not really get to first base about the technicalities of pre-Keynsian coin issue. Let me sketch my...
But all coins are used in trade of some sort – so on that basis “coins” is enough. “Trade coins” are conventionally coins struck specifically for...
My interest in such matters also tracks back in large part to Braudel's book, The Structures of Everyday Life. Back in the early 1980’s I noticed...
Looks like they were struck 200/libra @ 50% fine so international traders could be confident in getting a pound of silver in 400 coins. Anyone...
Thanks Kevin – two huge topics – I will try sketch roughly how I differ As I understand it “tyrant” was not a pejorative term in early Greek...
Good point - might well explain the problems at the top end with the Brimeux, Aquileia and Munich sets. But the two really posh sets - Feldkirch...
At least as far as domestic policy goes I would make Caesar more Whiggish than Xenophon. Do you disagree? For instance Caesar seems to be...
Thanks Ross, These cup/bucket weights seem to be specific to bullion dealing in late medieval times - so perhaps the Roman antecedents were the...
@rrdenarius many thanks for (all the) scans from Kisch. Most kind! It must be near 20 years since I looked at a copy (in a library) - but I now...
I see the similarity concerning the way Xenophon and Caesar both promoted themselves in deed and word, so to speak. But what do you think they...
Mes excuses à amis en France https://artefacts.mom.fr/de/libraries/tcpdf/examples/essai6.php?id=PDS-4421 and Germany...
Thanks for posting this – fascinating stuff! First to your own weight – as you say – hard to be sure but from the pic I would agree with you –...
piracy is like beauty.......... (in the eye of the beholder) https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/queen-elizabeth-i-s-sea-dogs/
Just came across this mid 19th century view of "gun money" (by Macaulay). Interesting to contrast it with some current opinions........ Rob T...
Nothing much in "Golden Bough" but Robert Graves (White Goddess) has a bunch of comments on Hares - for instance that Leviticus and Pliny say it...
But contra-wise, the ugliness of Wikipedia is that some other fellow can then change it on a whim, and just mess your efforts up. And the...
I take your point – its hard for anyone to claim an objective view of the whole wiki world – but still I do think the metrological sections, in a...
But why would I pick on that one? All the wiki pages on metrology seem to be in a flux of errors. Would seem like building on quicksand. Am...
A thought on the Wikipedia entry “Coin Weights”: How did things get this bad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_weights#cite_ref-Arnold_1-4...
@Roerbakmix many thanks for the detailed reply. I suspect we might be at cross purposes here. I would expect people in the medical sciences – (in...
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