Thanks for that. By the way the gold ducat I just discovered for my self is not Hungarian but French from the City of Metz, about 1600 and it is...
I need some help with these coins. They are not mine. I was asked by a third party about them. The one in the red folder is obviously a tremissis...
I started my photography wit a Kodak Brownies and Verichrome Pan film in the mid 1950's. Rangefinder 35 mm in the 60's, SLR's in the 70's, digital...
Actually I did not "enjoy" the book on the Roman market economy. I thought Temin did a pretty good job in establishing that Rome, for a while,...
You are right. I did get carried away with that post and allowed indignation to replace reasoned logic.
I am no expert in English coinage, but was there not also a considerable debasement of the silver coinage during the reign of Elizabeth I?
Perhaps if the coinage had been debased from the high fineness of Angevin silver their real wages had not gone up except on paper, that is it...
Considering the pandemonium and panic in the marketplace right now with the Corona virus, more of a potential than actual catastrophe, I can well...
I think it ran in the family I think it ran in the family. Titus, sestertius, 34.75 mm, 24.o9 grams. He made a desert and called it peace....
Thanks. Now this is an answer from someone well versed in owls. Some of that wisdom seems to rubbed off on its author.
Thanks for that story. Interesting and quite probable. I recall reading that the deadliest plagues known in history seem to have had their origins...
A beautiful reminder of why the Greeks are praised for their appreciation of the beautiful things of life. Now, a question. I have never seen a...
That's the best Claudius II Gothicus I have ever seen. Gorgeous and that's hard to say for his coinage.
Thanks for those earlier posts. I had missed that first one on the Plague of Cyprian
I believe it was Fort Hays which was receiving recruits from all over the country and then sending them overseas. What was strange about the...
Great coinage examples. I have that one of Gallus with Juno on the reverse but did not know it was connected to the Plague of Cyprian. Thanks for...
Thanks for the example of that coin. The Plague of Cyprian is the least documented of the four great plagues of Antiquity. Also, thanks for the...
Is your coin a Roman provincial?
I can tell you a great deal about the "Spanish" flu of 1918, which, by the way seems to have first been diagnosed here in the US. It killed my...
Yes, the silver content of the silver by this time as seen in your coin was so obviously reduced that it was becoming impossible for the Roman...
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