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<p>[QUOTE="Edessa, post: 4889149, member: 84065"]What I really understand about the subject could fit on a Tetartemorion, but this is where the series is placed by Metcalf, based on find spots and stylistic analysis (map below). And of course, the many decades of previous scholarship. </p><p><br /></p><p>Metcalf: Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Volume III:</p><p>"The main primary and secondary runic series is quite complicated enough on its own without confusing the picture by introducing untested assumptions about coins which may in fact belong to other regions. A stylistic analysis, in conjunction with chemical analysis and average weights, quickly clears the ground and shows that almost all specimens of Series R belong to one or another of about a dozen coherent and readily identifiable groups. There is a good correlation between alloy, runes and style in the more plentiful groups. The series falls into two parts, namely coins with a bust, i.e. a head with a neck, and those with just a head. The former are of better silver, varying from c.95 per cent down to about half silver. The latter are mostly below 40 per cent, falling eventually to as little as 2 to 3 per cent. The distinction between bust and head is, obviously, chronological; it defines two phases."</p><p><br /></p><p>There is an interesting discussion by Naismith in MEC 8 about whether the epa signature had "originated as a moneyer's name in Kent in the late seventh century, although it certainly had become immobilized in RS...". Moneyer's names start again on the next iteration, as the silver content drops.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the observation...I appreciate any excuse to spend time in my reference books!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1179867[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Edessa, post: 4889149, member: 84065"]What I really understand about the subject could fit on a Tetartemorion, but this is where the series is placed by Metcalf, based on find spots and stylistic analysis (map below). And of course, the many decades of previous scholarship. Metcalf: Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Volume III: "The main primary and secondary runic series is quite complicated enough on its own without confusing the picture by introducing untested assumptions about coins which may in fact belong to other regions. A stylistic analysis, in conjunction with chemical analysis and average weights, quickly clears the ground and shows that almost all specimens of Series R belong to one or another of about a dozen coherent and readily identifiable groups. There is a good correlation between alloy, runes and style in the more plentiful groups. The series falls into two parts, namely coins with a bust, i.e. a head with a neck, and those with just a head. The former are of better silver, varying from c.95 per cent down to about half silver. The latter are mostly below 40 per cent, falling eventually to as little as 2 to 3 per cent. The distinction between bust and head is, obviously, chronological; it defines two phases." There is an interesting discussion by Naismith in MEC 8 about whether the epa signature had "originated as a moneyer's name in Kent in the late seventh century, although it certainly had become immobilized in RS...". Moneyer's names start again on the next iteration, as the silver content drops. Thanks for the observation...I appreciate any excuse to spend time in my reference books! [ATTACH=full]1179867[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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