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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6443906, member: 19463"]I wish there were a way of cataloging coins that made it easier to recognize overlaps better than either strict adherence to time or place. I keep coins in date order by culture BUT I keep all coins of, for example, Caracalla after all Septimius Severus even though some of Septimius were made 15 years later than some of Caracalla. I also separate coins by mint with all my "Emesa" Septimius coins together even though they fall by date mixed with coins of Rome and other mints. This is the way RIC IV and BMC V did it. Later, however RIC VI put coins of two co-rulers together on one page but I continued to log all Diocletian coins before the first Maximianus, for example. I keep my Divus Augustus coins at the end of my Augustus section even though one was made by Nerva. If one were to use a strict date order, it would be easier to see who might have known which other ruler (Harun al Rashid knew Charlemagne but I would have to look up to be certain that Basil II was on the Byzantine throne then. Did any of those guys know Zhen Zong? I have no idea. Computers make it possible to print out our databases in several ways but information is hard to put in easily sorted data when rather few coins are known to have been issued in a specific year (and that does not allow for the fact that there were several different calendars in use around the globe at any given time). </p><p><br /></p><p>I admire teachers who can simplify things for students but I would prefer that they be taught that there is something better to study in history than a list of dates and labels. I wanted to teach history on the college level but that never happened. Today I am slightly grateful to the draft board that would not let me go to graduate school. At the time, I did not care for them in the least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6443906, member: 19463"]I wish there were a way of cataloging coins that made it easier to recognize overlaps better than either strict adherence to time or place. I keep coins in date order by culture BUT I keep all coins of, for example, Caracalla after all Septimius Severus even though some of Septimius were made 15 years later than some of Caracalla. I also separate coins by mint with all my "Emesa" Septimius coins together even though they fall by date mixed with coins of Rome and other mints. This is the way RIC IV and BMC V did it. Later, however RIC VI put coins of two co-rulers together on one page but I continued to log all Diocletian coins before the first Maximianus, for example. I keep my Divus Augustus coins at the end of my Augustus section even though one was made by Nerva. If one were to use a strict date order, it would be easier to see who might have known which other ruler (Harun al Rashid knew Charlemagne but I would have to look up to be certain that Basil II was on the Byzantine throne then. Did any of those guys know Zhen Zong? I have no idea. Computers make it possible to print out our databases in several ways but information is hard to put in easily sorted data when rather few coins are known to have been issued in a specific year (and that does not allow for the fact that there were several different calendars in use around the globe at any given time). I admire teachers who can simplify things for students but I would prefer that they be taught that there is something better to study in history than a list of dates and labels. I wanted to teach history on the college level but that never happened. Today I am slightly grateful to the draft board that would not let me go to graduate school. At the time, I did not care for them in the least.[/QUOTE]
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