Great to hear you got ATEE. Seems to me Dr M does a huge amount of work and probably sees a limited return, often enough. I see where you are...
I found the book by Barry Kemp very good on this. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Ancient_Egypt.html?id=Jn2N_bQrzS8C&redir_esc=y Here is...
I tend to disagree, but in a rather complicated way. I would put it like this. Coins themselves were not difficult to invent. They are surely a...
Yes - I agree. I seem to recall the economist Keynes went further - saying they 'got along perfectly well without coins' That I find more...
Another quibble, but a crucial one in this context. The (Islamic) dinar/mithacal was c. 4.25g and seems to be derive from (the Seleucid version)...
Thanks again Ed – its a delight to correspond with you. To be honest I had in mind the Islamic texts that try to explain the political history of...
Yes - and there are a host of different "dirhems", at different times and places. Back in the 1970's I was taught "ordinary language philosophy"....
I agree the situation there is complicated. The prototype is later Sasanid, with a weight at around 4.13g Most of the early Indo-Sasanid weigh...
We can get few clues from surviving text (written by Narshakhi) mostly about the coins of Bukhara at about the same date (c. 775 AD). Writing in...
Thanks for raising this here. I disagree that this is a problem. Adopting anything like a scientific approach demands we do do something just...
Thanks - that link is a helpful effort. A pity there is no contact detail for the author Rob T
As I understand the best guess, this might have (theoretically) been a drachm in value, or a deben in weight, or indeed both (at full weight deben...
Forgive me if I quibble about some details. Etymology is almost always guesswork, and I never was convinced by this grasping spits idea. At the...
Fascinating stuff Ed! The most probable conclusion, on the nails, seems to me to be that the excavator - Richmond - indeed carted most of the...
Perhaps I am alone in finding this matter troubling? All I know about it is what is on Wiki. And that seems to show that some anonymous person...
Not difficult to answer - the wiki page was changed on 11th October - just go to the "view history" tab. The citation supposedly supporting the...
By coincidence I was just looking at this very matter. I presume all the great old museums were set up by collectors, who had a keen appreciation...
Nobody knows for sure, I think, - why the Britannia reverse was resurrected in 1672 for the halfpennies and farthings of Charles II. However –...
It is “GH 575”. I'm fairly sure it is the penultimate imperial issue of Taxila mint - before it fell into rebel hands. Symbols, more details and...
All the coins but three shown on the link are Kabul Valley issues - there are few coins but still much variety. The three at the bottom are from...
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