You are right that I missed a major event from my list – the debasement of the silver coinage, during 9 years, 1544-53, so begun by Henry VIII and...
But surely there was no debasement of mid fourteenth pennies? The penny was sterling, just like Angevin issues, was it not? That's really my...
Thanks. This seems to me strong on passion and imagination, but short on detail. You cite a Peter Temin book, and Temin seems mostly interested in...
Coincided with? Yes. Led to? Maybe Yes - but for me that points to questions about gvt ideology, which I think is probably the correct way to...
Great. My knowledge concerns the British scene and - as always with history - it seems to me when we delve we learn as much about the present as...
I judge this is the orthodox view, but whenever I looked into the economic aspects of the matter, it does not seem to me to stack up. The Europe...
Further to my last - I just stuck "Leo" into Vcoins and even his grotty coppers seem to be 30 quid or so. Grotty 3rd and 4th coppers would be 30...
Thanks. We agree on most of this, but I take it you are suggesting that there were maybe plenty of 5th Roman coppers but nobody bothered to hoard...
I just noticed that a fair amount of text is available on line on google books from Hendy’s “Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy c....
A new paper by Bland here https://www.academia.edu/42026541 seems to me to point to (at least) a couple of basic (perhaps not very...
Further to my last – I note that most coin people date the start of the Byzantine period to Anastasius, following Grierson, Sear etc. Grierson...
Thanks – I suspect you are right. There is a translation of the Priscian Panegyric in this:...
Can anyone assist with a pointer to primary sources on the economic/monetary reforms of Anastasius? I found this on line:...
Thanks - that was my point here. BTW Muhammed Khalji was psychologically extraordinary. Apparently, like Charlemagne and Akbar, he changed the...
Forgive me if I go right back to square one to criticise this. Of all the thousands of pages I read on pre-modern economics just one sentence...
Looks right to me. As I hinted before, I think the BM went on a 600K wild goose chase over ritual burial at Frome. I think Mattingley got it right...
Hello Kevin Many thanks for this. I have spent a good deal of my life looking at the economic forces behind the coinages of early India, Islam,...
A puzzling loaded question since nobody here claimed ‘modern economists are not Keynesian’ However, thanks indeed for the introduction to the...
Let me explain my own position regarding Croesus etc. Prior to coins the wealthy could easily make large payments in bullion by weight. But the...
Really useful write up. Enjoyed the main link You are quite right to say "As modern economics would tell us, (Diocletian's edits) didn't work"...
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