I am afraid any quick search ought to find this: https://www.academia.edu/19512723/ROMAN_COINS_DISCOVERED_IN_CHINA_AND_THEIR_RESEARCH Thus it...
Thanks. Elementary mathematics suggests this might rather be an attempt to re-set silver at 12:1 rather than 18:1 against gold. As I understand it...
Thanks for the link. Hard to decide. We are talking about early in the century of course, before the later reductions. There are a good few...
Interesting - can you cite a rigorous study? Most of the siliqua I have seen in the UK are badly clipped of course. If Julian shifted the...
Interesting question, and I do not really know Looks to me like a rather narrow elite were in control in the later empire, (with perhaps an...
I think I know why this was going on – but I am open to correction. Here is my story Way back in time I worked in head office operations in a big...
Ha! Yes – well I did say I was not the guy to ask. Many thanks If anyone is interested - google “Gorny chinese cash” and scroll down to page 107...
Just out of curiosity - if you have time - how many varieties does "Zhongguo Guqian Daji" have for Hartill 16.235+ (Yuan Feng, single, running...
I am not really the guy you need, but here are some thoughts to start the ball rolling. Have you ever looked inside of a copy of Werner Burger’s...
Dunno – maybe some more info on Alauddin might be relevant? Alauddin was apparently completely without religious or racial prejudice - which...
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the...
Yes – completely agree. My point about Armstrong’s effort being “rudimentary” was really a sort of criticism - but not of him rather of everybody...
Thanks. Its odd how we chose our particular stance on such things. Nero seems to me (personally) forgivable – like what would happen if you made...
Amusing question. Oddly I find myself taking Nero’s side, whilst being fully aware that I only have a rudimentary knowledge of the guy. I suppose...
I have been making rudimentary attempts to figure out what Harl was saying about the denomination relations within 4th century Roman coins. Its...
I am only just digging into this a little, but yes – Constantine’s doings in this regard look rather restrained and piecemeal compared with what...
Yes – I was looking at the the Jonathan Bardill book (google: Jonathan Bardill Temple and pick page 264 or see link below). He says much the same...
Thanks for the Knighthood! However: note Libanius' De templis http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/libanius_pro_templis_02_trans.htm The...
I recently came across an excerpt from ‘De Rebus Bellicis’ which made the suggestion that Constantine got the gold for his big solidus launch on...
Hardly anyone used Attic as an actual weight standard - and that includes Athens - which had a mina of c. 455g initially, rising eventually to...
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