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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2220924, member: 112&quot;]Pretty much all mints document everything. For example, when Stahl wrote Zecca, he found the original mint documents for the Venetian mint dating back to the 13th century. And yeah they still exist. The only issue is finding the documents in the archives. But it does require going there and doing it. This is known as primary research. And yeah you have go through all of the red tape to do that before you even start researching.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now sometimes you can find things in secondary research, this is when you find the results of previous primary research done by somebody else. But that&#039;s when you begin to into problems because you don&#039;t always know for sure if what you find comes from primary research, or secondary, or 3rd or 4th or whatever. And when one author starts copying previous authors, that&#039;s when the mistakes get repeated. This why a great many books have mistakes in them, because they were copied from previous authors and merely repeated by the current author. So when you&#039;re doing research, you have to research your research.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I wasn&#039;t the one who accessed the Dutch archives, that was done by Darek Jasek, ( he lives in Europe), the guy I helped to write the book. Suffice it to say that a lot of mistakes in the few previous works were corrected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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