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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2803573, member: 75525"][USER=76181]@4to2centBC[/USER] thanks for posting. I have not read this one. It looks interesting, and needs a lot of coffee. </p><p>I read much of a book by Kris Lockyear when I started building my book collection on Roman Republican coins. The library at Rice U had a thin, red paperback book -</p><p><u>Patterns and Process in Late Roman Republican Coin Hoards, 157-2 BC</u></p><p>by Kris Lockyear. I checked it out thinking I could breeze through it. I was wrong!!!!!!!! The book is interesting and takes hoard analysis to another level. Kris has published often on the subject of RR coins. You can find that book here - </p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/630046/Patterns_and_process_in_late_Roman_Republican_coin_hoards_157-2_BC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/630046/Patterns_and_process_in_late_Roman_Republican_coin_hoards_157-2_BC" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/630046/Patterns_and_process_in_late_Roman_Republican_coin_hoards_157-2_BC</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>I have read several books whose authors have excellent reasons to re-date the RR coin series proposed by Crawford. I decided to go with Crawford's dating for my collection. I find it easy to pick up the book and place my new coin in date order. Unfortunately Crawford covers only part my latest collecting area, cast bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>FYI - I still use the out of date engineering units I learned in school. I have a feel for heat transfer in BTU per hour - square foot - degree Fahrenheit. If you give me watts per square meter - degree kelvin, I am lost until the units are converted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2803573, member: 75525"][USER=76181]@4to2centBC[/USER] thanks for posting. I have not read this one. It looks interesting, and needs a lot of coffee. I read much of a book by Kris Lockyear when I started building my book collection on Roman Republican coins. The library at Rice U had a thin, red paperback book - [U]Patterns and Process in Late Roman Republican Coin Hoards, 157-2 BC[/U] by Kris Lockyear. I checked it out thinking I could breeze through it. I was wrong!!!!!!!! The book is interesting and takes hoard analysis to another level. Kris has published often on the subject of RR coins. You can find that book here - [url]https://www.academia.edu/630046/Patterns_and_process_in_late_Roman_Republican_coin_hoards_157-2_BC[/url] I have read several books whose authors have excellent reasons to re-date the RR coin series proposed by Crawford. I decided to go with Crawford's dating for my collection. I find it easy to pick up the book and place my new coin in date order. Unfortunately Crawford covers only part my latest collecting area, cast bronze. FYI - I still use the out of date engineering units I learned in school. I have a feel for heat transfer in BTU per hour - square foot - degree Fahrenheit. If you give me watts per square meter - degree kelvin, I am lost until the units are converted.[/QUOTE]
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