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<p>[QUOTE="KParsons, post: 3198444, member: 32926"]What an awesome website! Thanks for pulling this together, Valentinian! Looks like a lot of work, but it is hugely valuable, so thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got really serious about this amazing series in the last couple years and started asking questions like the ones posed here. Great questions, but it seems that the answers aren't out there. You've identified 2 great ones here: </p><ul> <li>Relative frequency (or relative rarity) between the Anonymous Follis Classes</li> <li>Assignment of Class B, C, and D to particular rulers</li> </ul><p>I love the table you pulled together, attempting to answer the first question. I think museums/collections are certainly one way the attempt to answer the question of relative frequency. On your webpage, you did reference the drawback of this approach: "<font size="4">...museum collections have some goals that cause their collections to inaccurately reflect the numbers of each type extant. They work hard (as do collectors) to get rarities, which may be overrepresented. They may no longer seek a type when they have a few good examples, even if many more are available."</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">In my opinion, excavation finds are the best source of this information. The more, the better. My favorite resource for this series has a section that documents many excavation finds (including Corinth and Athens - more than 9300 anonymous coins in all). It is called "Byzantine Monetary Affairs During the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Centuries" and is a >400 page PhD thesis from Oxford University by Vassiliki Athanassopoulou-Pennas. His thesis advisor - David Metcalf. I found it on the web, but I have never seen referenced by anyone else. You can download it at Oxford University's research archive: <a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02e4cf82-a638-4bd2-a45b-09c17c585dc8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02e4cf82-a638-4bd2-a45b-09c17c585dc8" rel="nofollow">https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02e4cf82-a638-4bd2-a45b-09c17c585dc8</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">The thesis above covers mostly sites in modern day Greece. In 2016, Serkan KILIÇ wrote a paper titled "Byzantine Anonymous Folles in the Bolu Museum" in which he compared the Bolu museum anonymous follis collection to 1) other museum collections throughout modern day Turkey and 2) 12 different excavations across modern day Turkey! This is an extremely valuable resource. The file can be found at both the following locations:</font></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum</a></li> </ul><p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304708719_Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304708719_Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304708719_Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum</a></li> </ul><p>I've summarized all of these resources into a table similar to the one presented on this website. I'll share that in a future post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again - thanks for starting the website and the thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>KP[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KParsons, post: 3198444, member: 32926"]What an awesome website! Thanks for pulling this together, Valentinian! Looks like a lot of work, but it is hugely valuable, so thank you. I got really serious about this amazing series in the last couple years and started asking questions like the ones posed here. Great questions, but it seems that the answers aren't out there. You've identified 2 great ones here: [LIST] [*]Relative frequency (or relative rarity) between the Anonymous Follis Classes [*]Assignment of Class B, C, and D to particular rulers [/LIST] I love the table you pulled together, attempting to answer the first question. I think museums/collections are certainly one way the attempt to answer the question of relative frequency. On your webpage, you did reference the drawback of this approach: "[SIZE=4]...museum collections have some goals that cause their collections to inaccurately reflect the numbers of each type extant. They work hard (as do collectors) to get rarities, which may be overrepresented. They may no longer seek a type when they have a few good examples, even if many more are available." In my opinion, excavation finds are the best source of this information. The more, the better. My favorite resource for this series has a section that documents many excavation finds (including Corinth and Athens - more than 9300 anonymous coins in all). It is called "Byzantine Monetary Affairs During the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Centuries" and is a >400 page PhD thesis from Oxford University by Vassiliki Athanassopoulou-Pennas. His thesis advisor - David Metcalf. I found it on the web, but I have never seen referenced by anyone else. You can download it at Oxford University's research archive: [url]https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02e4cf82-a638-4bd2-a45b-09c17c585dc8[/url] The thesis above covers mostly sites in modern day Greece. In 2016, Serkan KILIÇ wrote a paper titled "Byzantine Anonymous Folles in the Bolu Museum" in which he compared the Bolu museum anonymous follis collection to 1) other museum collections throughout modern day Turkey and 2) 12 different excavations across modern day Turkey! This is an extremely valuable resource. The file can be found at both the following locations:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*][url]https://www.academia.edu/12657555/Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum[/url] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][url]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304708719_Byzantine_Anonymous_Folles_in_the_Bolu_Museum[/url] [/LIST] I've summarized all of these resources into a table similar to the one presented on this website. I'll share that in a future post. Again - thanks for starting the website and the thread! KP[/QUOTE]
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