L. just drew my attention to this passage from Livy: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_5 see section 48 As he...
Can anyone assist? I have been browsing this text from Richard Cumberland of 1685...
Can any kind soul assist? Medieval sources repeatedly mention a Jewish guy variously called Sumayr or Sumoir (or indeed all sorts of variants on...
A thought on the Wikipedia entry “Coin Weights”: How did things get this bad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_weights#cite_ref-Arnold_1-4...
I just noticed this oddity If we assume the "thirty pieces of silver" were sela (tetradrachms of Tyre) and take the theoretical weight as 14.2g...
I have been making rudimentary attempts to figure out what Harl was saying about the denomination relations within 4th century Roman coins. Its...
I recently came across an excerpt from ‘De Rebus Bellicis’ which made the suggestion that Constantine got the gold for his big solidus launch on...
I recently came upon the suggestion that Constantine followed Octavian in claiming (a kind of!) descent from Jupiter via the Trojan royal line,...
I will not be shipping anything for a good while, but if anyone contacts me direct - I will make a list for action down the line Jitals, 800 were...
Can anyone assist concerning the existance of any ancient text regarding the basic Roman (or Greek) units of small weight? Very clearly the Roman...
What are the current theories on the percentages of gold and silver being mined as opposed to recycled from some previous use? I studied this...
Wade-Giles was in the past far more accurate to western thinking and pronunciation. But as with academia one cannot make a name for themselves...
This might appeal to some who have an interest in oral history, or just in strange coincidences. I take it from memory but can fill out reference...
Just a note to say that "Early World Coins and Early Weight Standards" is again available at a reasonable price in the USA - from Joel Anderson...
Around 6 years back I attended two talks bearing on the Frome hoard by Moorhead et al, one in Yorkshire targeting numismatists, another in London...
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