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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3269669, member: 93416&quot;]I find this comment puzzling. What “many series” do you have in mind? Off hand, from the ancient world, I can think of just these siliquae, and some Wu Shu and Huo Chuan Chinese cash……………..</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This prompted me to dig around just a little for some facts.&nbsp; What I found seems to contradict your position, and indeed, they lead me to retract my own previous comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>The consensus seems to be that the clipping of siliquae was a one time event, happening sometime in the period 402 and 420 AD. This would seem coincide with the break down of Roman tax collection in Britain altogether – perhaps even helped precipitate it?&nbsp; So again - it seems nothing to do with some new weight standard?</p><p><br /></p><p>And further - that coin use had essentially stopped altogether by 470, long before sceatta, with coins by then just viewed as a form of bullion</p><p><br /></p><p>see:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/11479304" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/11479304" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/11479304</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4195308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/4195308" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/4195308</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue41/8/5-1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue41/8/5-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue41/8/5-1.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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