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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 5291038, member: 93416&quot;]Adds to what Alan DeShazo already told me via Academia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I first came across Michael Bates at a conference in London (1976?). The great Turkish numismatist Cuneyt Olcer has travelled from Istanbul to give a charming and light hearted talk on Ottoman coppers. Michael made quite merciless criticisms from the floor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus when the WWW and Yahoo appeared I took that as a kind of licence, and my subsequent long debates with Michael rather took the appearance of a blood sport. All to the good, much as Voltaire said about pens and such.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow, with such thoughts in mind, I would like to point out that if I ask what</p><p>4.25 x 60/87 is and you reply by rambling about Hannukah - this seems a disappointing attack on rationality itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me - further evidence that scholarship has caught a fatal illness.&nbsp; Caught it round about 1970 in my judgement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even Michael and I might agree on that. I will ask him and see.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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