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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 3309215, member: 74222&quot;]In all the case the “renowned historians” have expertise in some certain field. Being &quot;renowned&quot; do not mean that one knows everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>And often when they speak outside their expertise zone, they make mistake. Some have expertise on Roman history, other Middle Ages, other are sinologists (China’s history), some are experts in American Civil War, other are historians of science. etc etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Niall Ferguson’s expertise is, as far as I can tell from google, (modern) economic history just as mentioned before. And in this case, it will not be surprising that he got it wrong when trying to tell a point about Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is just the same thing with David Sear’s “Byzantine Coins and their Values”. I trust his category of the coins, but not much his historical description unless it is confirmed by other byzantinist historians.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here a similar case:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/emperors-of-rome-book-with-lots-of-coin-errors.323051/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/emperors-of-rome-book-with-lots-of-coin-errors.323051/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/emperors-of-rome-book-with-lots-of-coin-errors.323051/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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