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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4550846, member: 19463"]Exactly. Coins are a primary source. Hoard reports and in depth studies of coins (I'm thinking the level of Boehringer's die studies of Syracuse) are secondary sources derived from the coins. RIC and such catalogs are derived from the individual studies as listed in the Bibliography in their volumes and, therefore tertiary. Books on Roman coins based on their author having read RIC are hardly good enough to be tertiary but it is popular to consider them as sources. Web pages like mine and Coin Talk postings fall into this same lower echelon of tertiary at best and 'conspiracy theory' in some cases. Ancient documents written a century after the events are not primary. I am wholly unaware of any extensive textual primary sources on ancient coins. We have no mint records but just a few passing mentions of a term here and there. Add to that the fact that most written texts show a bias on the part of the author to a point that is not all that different from a Victory coin issued by a loser. Truth is hard to find in 2020 regarding things that happen today. It is no easier when mellowed for 2000 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4550846, member: 19463"]Exactly. Coins are a primary source. Hoard reports and in depth studies of coins (I'm thinking the level of Boehringer's die studies of Syracuse) are secondary sources derived from the coins. RIC and such catalogs are derived from the individual studies as listed in the Bibliography in their volumes and, therefore tertiary. Books on Roman coins based on their author having read RIC are hardly good enough to be tertiary but it is popular to consider them as sources. Web pages like mine and Coin Talk postings fall into this same lower echelon of tertiary at best and 'conspiracy theory' in some cases. Ancient documents written a century after the events are not primary. I am wholly unaware of any extensive textual primary sources on ancient coins. We have no mint records but just a few passing mentions of a term here and there. Add to that the fact that most written texts show a bias on the part of the author to a point that is not all that different from a Victory coin issued by a loser. Truth is hard to find in 2020 regarding things that happen today. It is no easier when mellowed for 2000 years.[/QUOTE]
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