I too have spent a lifetime studying coins. I am left with no doubt that coin issue itself is primarily a political matter, and always has been....
Thanks for saying this!
Sounds like you guys were spared the BBC's "Bonekickers" – if that counts? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/24/bonekickers-axed-bbc I...
[ATTACH] PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Berenike II, wife of Ptolemy III. Circa 244/3-221 BC. AV Oktadrachm (29mm, 27.69 g, 12h). Attic standard....
Well, I am rather sure the truth matters. It is no affair of mine to despise a man who thinks otherwise. Suffice to leave to him responsibility...
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Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit?
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Afraid nearly everyone with a sophisticated knowledge of this matter thinks the "over time" bit is basically wrong. As, I think, is much in Wiki...
Afraid the "over time" bit is basically wrong. As, I think, is nearly everything in Wiki and that blog cited above about Troy weight. Variations...
There is a revised and much better version of the effort here - with the drawings from the origional 1993 print run restored...
Sometimes perhaps - but in general no. Sasanid coins are turning up in hoards about 200 years after 'Abd al Maliks reform. By then very clipped...
Yes, thats it. A huge change, lots of coins before the change, lots of coins after - but a big gap with (almost?) nothing inbetween. I used to...
Apologies - by K II - I meant Khusru II. As to the communist phase under Kavad matters are not so clear cut, but much later text (Arab...
Am just a dilettante on these - but here are a couple of points 1) For weight standard, up to Peroz the coins seem to follow Alexander and...
Sure. All I am really saying is the Hormizd coin looks weird to me. I would certainly back down if someone who studied the coins more closely...
contra other comments - this does not look official to me. No idea who did make it, but yes - I think you are correct in your puzzlement
Note I recently sent a packet to Germany from the UK, which Royal Mail inexplicably sent to Chicago. I then tracked it all around Minnesota...
This sort of countermarking was of course very common on middle period Maghada/Mauryan coins, and again much later on Bengal tankas. As Finn235...
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