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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3460770, member: 93416&quot;]I too have spent a lifetime studying coins.&nbsp; I am left with no doubt that coin issue itself is primarily a political matter, and always has been.&nbsp; To ignore this misses the point of serious numismatic study.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have no doubt that what passes for serious official scholarship has always contained rather a lot of political bias - and further, things got a lot worse in recent decades - as archaeology has supplanted history in many areas of the study of the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have had a look at <a href="http://www.partisanlines.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.partisanlines.com" rel="nofollow">www.partisanlines.com</a> - and it does not seem to be being used for numismatic debate at all.&nbsp; However I would be willing to join and discuss such matters further if others choose to do so.&nbsp; Perhaps Orfew, since he is clearly sincere, but I definitely disagree with his position, equally sincerely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, the title &quot;partisanlines&quot; seems regrettable to me.&nbsp; I would never wish to take a partisan position.&nbsp; That there are kinds of quite serious political bias in much official scholarship seems to me a clear objective fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob Tye[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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