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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6348979, member: 110504&quot;]...Drat.&nbsp; The NC is only archived on Jstor, and only the earliest numbers are available free.&nbsp; For journals, I&#039;m stuck with whatever&#039;s randomly available online.</p><p>...Would you recommend a membership?&nbsp; (...And, Yes, what does it Cost?&nbsp; ...Unless you&#039;re a practicing academic, instead of a frustrated one, like me.)</p><p>...More impressionistically, the stylistic decline following the issues of Bohemond III is both broad and pronounced.&nbsp; As you imply, this could be largely due to the accelerated scale of mintages.</p><p>...Although, of course, for extant examples, Bohemond III&#039;s are easily the commonest.&nbsp; Not having seen the article, it&#039;s a commensurately easy guess that a lot of the Roupenid ones were melted down with Bohemond IV&#039;s reaccession.</p><p>(Fun detail, for those tuning in late: Raymond Roupen was the maternal great-nephew of Levon /Leo I (first Roupenid king of Armenia, (1198/) 1199-1219), of numismatic fame, thanks to his AR trams.&nbsp; --Which, while incorporating numerous Frankish elements in the motifs, follow the general module of contemporary Ayyubid dirhams.&nbsp; Evoking, in turn, the Frankish Levantine imitations of the Ayyubids.&nbsp; Along with Venetian grossos, issued from the beginning of the 13th century.</p><p>(...Raymond was also a paternal grandson of Bohemond III, and a nephew of Bohemond IV, whose reign he temporarily usurped.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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