Nice write up I think the oldest Afghan coins are going to be the so called Kabul Valley issues - very rare, most known ones came from the...
Traditionally there has been a great deal of co-operation between museums and collectors, all to the good of our general understanding of the...
In principle, I think that an excellent hypothesis to follow up. It is exactly the sort of thing I seem to see happening in ancient and medieval...
Yes I agree. There are plausible arguments that Republican denarii were tariffed at 6 to the ounce but struck at 7 to the ounce - so with a fiat...
I find this comment puzzling. What “many series” do you have in mind? Off hand, from the ancient world, I can think of just these siliquae, and...
I have no knowledge of the specific episode of Roman clipping – but have looked at clipping more generally – and on the basis of that suggest you...
Yes that looks right to me - the pics look like stray losses of coins that were working hard in the market place. Leaves open the question - how...
Just a casual comment, but it seems to me strange how thin on the ground the small denomination owls seem to be. Do others agree? I wonder how...
That's kind of you Ken. The 500 I printed on paper in 1993 are long gone, but its free here if anyone is interested:...
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It's entirely plausible that the downfall of Mang was the bloodiest civil war ever fought. Contemporary texts suggest about 26 million died...
No - that’s just not “it”. Two criticisms - one on fact - another on generational attitude Regarding fact - you are just wrong. Take the major...
Yes – has anyone put the whole thing to the web I wonder? Two things to say about the author, Pheru. He ran what was very probably the biggest...
Nearly 30 years back I came across the interesting book by Donald E Brown reviewed here...
Afraid not being a subscriber, I could not blow up the pic to see the coin. The coins I have in mind look a lot like the Peroz issues themselves,...
To the best of my knowledge almost all Sasanid drachm issues fall pretty randomly in the 89% to 99% purity range, and its hard to say if any of...
Apologies again for my hazy recollections. What I had in mind were very good Indian copies of Peroz drachms, better than any pictured above....
Hello Doug Maybe others know more, but I think the first is on a Sasanid late K II issue, but (on the basis of what I laughingly call my memory)...
A few hasty comments, with apologies that I do not have time/access to make scans. 1) Missing so far from the above are pics of the rare very...
Here are a couple of papers that hit the news a bit recently, and bear on early medieval silver mining in Europe, and coinage. I would need to...
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