I never studied Venician coins closely - and am curious about the move towards high weight in this silver piece. Here is a rough background story...
Ha! -I think the basic thing about money is that it is always going to get complicated. How are rich guys going to get rich if its kept simple?
"but in a medieval coin context, "clipping" refers to the practice of people shaving metal off the edges of precious-metal coins, to save a bit of...
Thanks Doug. That seems accurate. Of course, Oxford Prof Howgego called Crawford's position "untenable" and cites Prof Lo Cascio and Dr Burnett...
Just to clarify my position - especially in the light of a post coming in as I wrote yesterday. It seems likely that there was something like...
As I tried to say before, the sort of problems I find interesting are ones like - why did Roman copper issue more or less stop after 130 BC? And...
Yes - I would more or less go along with that. I do not have specialist knowledge of Greek or Roman examples - but I have seen many of these...
Thanks - I have a rather rudimentary knowledge of Roman matters so it nice to get agreement. Those strange imported/copied foreign coin seem an...
Many thanks for the link - most helpful. As I read it Crawford is politely suggesting that Pliny was probably dissembling here - and the statues...
To be honest, I feel you are rather getting this upside down. All other things being equal, a plentiful copper coinage in itself surely assists...
There is a useful overview of Chinese use of precious metals (as coin and bullion) on line here by Cribb https://www.academia.edu/33778498/ Of...
I feel you make my case for me: Firstly, you call my position "pure conjecture" but I very recently posted important relevant evidence, in this...
Bullseye. For me, the persistence of the fundamental standards, behind the chaos of historical events, is an encouragement, a sign of a deep...
OK – my reply to this is that, although I do not claim old coin weights are not sometimes complicated – but in this quote Balog makes it seem far...
Hello Doug (Smith), No takers so far on the suggestions I put up earlier – and in fact this does not surprise me – so I will try to unpick this...
I just now joined cointalk because I came across this old thread by chance on the web, and I felt GDJMSP was making interesting suggestions on...
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