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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3122482, member: 93416&quot;]No problem Doug.&nbsp; I just felt the exchange needed less passion and more hard facts.</p><p><br /></p><p>This does highlight more general matters concerning the way two sides of numismatics - medievalists vs ancients people - often take very different approaches to historical economic matters.</p><p><br /></p><p>In part this could be because the historical economic matters just were differently arranged in the two periods, but its important to bear in mind that we have way more facts to go on regarding medieval matters, whereas we are often just left guessing regarding ancient events.</p><p><br /></p><p>A second thing that troubles me is that some very prominent writers on ancient events in the 20th century seems to me to muddle together two separate matters - their opinions on how the ancient world worked, and the way they think the modern world ought to work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good examples of this would be R G Collingwood and Moses Finley.&nbsp; Both put their cases very forcefully, and seem to have encouraged others to follow suit.&nbsp; Collingwood is especially interesting as in his philosophy of history he actually claimed to have special powers of historical insight denied to ordinary mortals................</p><p><br /></p><p>I find that troublingly elitist and prefer to try to approach matters with humility towards the facts, and in a spirit of collegiate curiosity</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob Tye[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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