I agree your key point here. We do need to step back from very specific suggestions. But I think something rather more general probably still...
I am less sure that the main aim of this volume is to unpick profound problems for the benefit of the general reader. In the professionalised...
Many thanks – an interesting idea to play with. A lot of things here I am unsure about. As I recall the Zanj was a rebellion of black slaves, but...
Yes - you could certainly be right. Having lived long in the West of Scotland myself, the thing looks so much like a tick to me. Of course,...
Yes - the strongest evidence that the Vikings traded by weight of metal is the huge number of small weights found on their sites, also the random...
Try this https://www.academia.edu/4645738/Late_Indian_Punchmarked_Coins_in_the_Mir_Zakah_II_Hoard Its hard to go beyond what I wrote there and...
I pointed out that the situation is complex, and mentioned one part of it. Are you dismissing my position? You seem to focus on just one...
Good plan – but ask a few. Careful not to waste your bus fare. Since 2014 the BM will refuse to look at most coins – unless you (unusually) have...
Yes - I suspected so, apologies if I seemed to suggest otherwise Thanks. As I feared Grading was absolutely vital in postal trading prior to...
Seems to me there is a clash of sorts here? I feel Doug is right - the best safe option is to buy from a guy with a track record of being willing...
I think that is where I got to too. My understanding is that the Libra was always understood at roughly 327g. The quote is from maybe 160 AD. At...
Many thanks indeed. Yes, I read Cumo, and thought about getting in touch with her, as she is just up the road a way from me. I found her work very...
Thanks. My interest here is I am trying to understand the “Distributio” of Lucius Volusius Maecianus. Its on the web but to my knowledge has...
I understand the logic of calling it an uncia - but is there any evidence, at all, that 2nd century Romans actually did? I note Sulla voiced...
Thanks Kentucky. Looks like these two guys get along OK (joke) Actually the Carisius denarius suggests that probably yes - McManus is correct...
Don't know about Rome – but the account of early Moghul mints (Akbar) show that the guy who placed the flan between the dies was paid a pittance,...
I would grade it F = "Fine" If I had expected a GF -and this is what turned up - I would say OK. I would return it if I had been expecting a VF...
(see above for live link) Many thanks for this - had not seen it before. At 22.2 grains the figure for the 1279 penny follows the known texts...
A bit of both I suspect. I think this is the best paper to look at (only part open access):...
I have not looked much at this particular problem, but I think Doug is correct to suggest we tread with great caution here. I have recently been...
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