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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8558175, member: 26430"]Yes, it is unfortunate any time you damage something ancient. It is definitely a sacrifice. We wouldn't want to do this often, but in this case, the payoff in scientific and historical knowledge about the Romans was enormous, so the cost was quite minute in comparison. </p><p><br /></p><p>Part of what Butcher & Ponting found was that the previous surface-analyses were badly mistaken, and everyone had been believing things about Roman coins -- and about Roman history and the Roman world more generally -- that were wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Their research immediately revised our understanding of Roman coinage (kind of dramatically), which benefits everyone with an interest in coins, or in related fields that use numismatic data. (First - second century Roman history, the Roman economy, it's relationship to the Provinces, to the army, and many other topics.)</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone interested, here are a few pieces of their research based on those coins (there are others, and many others citing the research):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Butcher & Ponting. 2014/2015. <i>Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage, from the Reform of Nero to the Reforms of Trajan</i>. Cambridge U. Press.</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Metallurgy_of_Roman_Silver_Coinage/f_EKCgAAQBAJ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Metallurgy_of_Roman_Silver_Coinage/f_EKCgAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Metallurgy_of_Roman_Silver_Coinage/f_EKCgAAQBAJ</a></font></p><p><font size="4">Google Scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=15996361724025328979&as_sdt=400005&sciodt=0,14&hl=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=15996361724025328979&as_sdt=400005&sciodt=0,14&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Cited by 92</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Ponting & Butcher<b>. </b>2005/2015. “Analysis of Roman Silver coins, Augustus to the reform of Trajan (27 BC - AD 100)” Project. Archaeology Data Service, UK.</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/coins_lt_2005/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/coins_lt_2005/" rel="nofollow">https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/coins_lt_2005/</a> </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Butcher, K., M. Ponting & J. Muona. 2009. "The denarii of Otho: a stylistic and compositional study." <i>La Rivista Italiana di Numismatica</i> 110: 291 - 310.</font></p><p><font size="4">Avail. online from authors: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/</a></font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8558175, member: 26430"]Yes, it is unfortunate any time you damage something ancient. It is definitely a sacrifice. We wouldn't want to do this often, but in this case, the payoff in scientific and historical knowledge about the Romans was enormous, so the cost was quite minute in comparison. Part of what Butcher & Ponting found was that the previous surface-analyses were badly mistaken, and everyone had been believing things about Roman coins -- and about Roman history and the Roman world more generally -- that were wrong. Their research immediately revised our understanding of Roman coinage (kind of dramatically), which benefits everyone with an interest in coins, or in related fields that use numismatic data. (First - second century Roman history, the Roman economy, it's relationship to the Provinces, to the army, and many other topics.) For anyone interested, here are a few pieces of their research based on those coins (there are others, and many others citing the research): [INDENT][SIZE=4]Butcher & Ponting. 2014/2015. [I]Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage, from the Reform of Nero to the Reforms of Trajan[/I]. Cambridge U. Press. [URL]https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Metallurgy_of_Roman_Silver_Coinage/f_EKCgAAQBAJ[/URL] Google Scholar: [URL='https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=15996361724025328979&as_sdt=400005&sciodt=0,14&hl=en']Cited by 92[/URL] Ponting & Butcher[B]. [/B]2005/2015. “Analysis of Roman Silver coins, Augustus to the reform of Trajan (27 BC - AD 100)” Project. Archaeology Data Service, UK. [URL]https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/coins_lt_2005/[/URL] Butcher, K., M. Ponting & J. Muona. 2009. "The denarii of Otho: a stylistic and compositional study." [I]La Rivista Italiana di Numismatica[/I] 110: 291 - 310. Avail. online from authors: [URL]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259934817/[/URL][/SIZE][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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