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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3194765, member: 44316"]I was reading the 1966-1971 <i>Survey of Numismatic Research</i> and found Grierson's comment on Metcalf's work which included creating a Class A3.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Metcalf has studied Class A of the Anonymous Folles, once again extending our knowledge of the find material but leaving the reader in doubt about the acceptability of his conclusions. Where he sees dispersal in space, with a plurality of mints, other scholars might be inclined to see dispersal in the other dimension, and a larger time spread."</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this means that without some clear distinction between A2 and A3, we might attribute finding somewhat different hoard compositions in the Balkans and Greece, not to the coins being from different mints, but from different times. After all, Class A was minted for 50 years at least and over 50+ years we would expect changes, even at a single mint, Constantinople, intending to produce a single type, Class A2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3194765, member: 44316"]I was reading the 1966-1971 [I]Survey of Numismatic Research[/I] and found Grierson's comment on Metcalf's work which included creating a Class A3. "Metcalf has studied Class A of the Anonymous Folles, once again extending our knowledge of the find material but leaving the reader in doubt about the acceptability of his conclusions. Where he sees dispersal in space, with a plurality of mints, other scholars might be inclined to see dispersal in the other dimension, and a larger time spread." I think this means that without some clear distinction between A2 and A3, we might attribute finding somewhat different hoard compositions in the Balkans and Greece, not to the coins being from different mints, but from different times. After all, Class A was minted for 50 years at least and over 50+ years we would expect changes, even at a single mint, Constantinople, intending to produce a single type, Class A2.[/QUOTE]
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