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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3169195, member: 84744"][USER=93416]@EWC3[/USER]: Good points about a persisting (if not permanent) marker feature and weak evidence for a spring. I don't have the knowledge to be able to evaluate whether ritual burials of metal were an established practice, I was assuming it was the received view... it certainly weakens Moorhead's case further if not. And I love your story of the retired guy and his delightful rhetorical strategy. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I agree on the main point for sure... it seems to me an economic motive is more probable than not. The number of hoards seems consistent with both your Gresham theory and the emergency burial theory, given that many residents of the island would have been complicit in Carausius's revolt and very concerned for their future under Constantius, or Allectus for that matter. A strike against the Gresham theory is of course the very low silver content of most of the coins (esp. the late Gallic empire which were particularly numerous), but you have of course tried to address that issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah, I guess we are pretty much dealing in hunches here. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> In any case, thanks for the very interesting post![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3169195, member: 84744"][USER=93416]@EWC3[/USER]: Good points about a persisting (if not permanent) marker feature and weak evidence for a spring. I don't have the knowledge to be able to evaluate whether ritual burials of metal were an established practice, I was assuming it was the received view... it certainly weakens Moorhead's case further if not. And I love your story of the retired guy and his delightful rhetorical strategy. :hilarious: Yes, I agree on the main point for sure... it seems to me an economic motive is more probable than not. The number of hoards seems consistent with both your Gresham theory and the emergency burial theory, given that many residents of the island would have been complicit in Carausius's revolt and very concerned for their future under Constantius, or Allectus for that matter. A strike against the Gresham theory is of course the very low silver content of most of the coins (esp. the late Gallic empire which were particularly numerous), but you have of course tried to address that issue. So yeah, I guess we are pretty much dealing in hunches here. :D In any case, thanks for the very interesting post![/QUOTE]
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