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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3156847, member: 93416"]If we turn to a period we have better records for we find William Chaloner making plated guineas in the 18th century. His plans ultimately failed because he was caught and hung, not because his plated coins always failed to pass.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have the physical evidence for apparently similar activities in ancient times, and its entirely reasonable to suppose that those items sometimes passed too (at great profit to the con artist).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It seems odd to me that Grierson would say that gold was "always weighed" in the context that you apply it. Hence my request for a citation to written work so I can get what specific context is being assumed. (I found him rather cautious in conversation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I only recall Grierson writing (see his "Numismatics", 1975) that Medieval European states initially opposed the production of check weights for gold coin altogether, as they did not wish circulation be impeded by weighing. But that seems to put some people very much in opposition to your own position[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3156847, member: 93416"]If we turn to a period we have better records for we find William Chaloner making plated guineas in the 18th century. His plans ultimately failed because he was caught and hung, not because his plated coins always failed to pass. We have the physical evidence for apparently similar activities in ancient times, and its entirely reasonable to suppose that those items sometimes passed too (at great profit to the con artist). It seems odd to me that Grierson would say that gold was "always weighed" in the context that you apply it. Hence my request for a citation to written work so I can get what specific context is being assumed. (I found him rather cautious in conversation.) I only recall Grierson writing (see his "Numismatics", 1975) that Medieval European states initially opposed the production of check weights for gold coin altogether, as they did not wish circulation be impeded by weighing. But that seems to put some people very much in opposition to your own position[/QUOTE]
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