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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4500054, member: 93416&quot;]I have been making rudimentary attempts to figure out what Harl was saying about the denomination relations within 4th century Roman coins. Its clear he was involved in a huge step forward from the positions Mattingly laid out about 30 years earlier. Although Harl is careful to distance himself from Bolin, all the same, I think a lot of the credit for the fruitful new 1990&#039;s attitudes to fiat matters - behind all this progress - was down a redirection of attitudes by Bolin.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only big criticism of the Harl book is really a kind of superficial one – about the old fashioned approach to presentation of his ideas. Just like Mattingly he has a text which references plates (different page) which in turn are annotated as to details (different page again). Indeed, by setting endnotes rather than subnotes its even more difficult that Mattingly, with the reader is being forced into repeatedly hunting backwards and forwards to different pages to try keep track of what is going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect this problem is probably not down to Harl himself, rather to do with rigidity in the ideas of his academic publisher/printer. Independent dealers like Seaby’s were already getting their illustrations into the text way back in the 1960’s, and independent collector scholars like Michael Mitchiner were revolutionising presentation by getting text and pictures side by side by the 1970’s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow – all that is becoming history as more and more information goes on line, and self typesetting on the web becomes 100x simpler than it once was. Which (finally!) gets me to my point. The only modern web site I found trying to explain the sort of thing Harl wrote about - with illustrations alongside text - is this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/monetary-history-of-imperial-rome/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/monetary-history-of-imperial-rome/" rel="nofollow">https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/monetary-history-of-imperial-rome/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And it is a very rudimentary effort. Have I missed something? Is there a web site I overlooked making a modern understanding of the workings of 4th century Roman coins more accessible?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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