Hooray! - the pictures have miraculously appeared. I note that Lot 2500 in Auction 156 appears to be Sear 2108 of John III Vatatzes, not a new type of Michael...
<<It seems reasonable to assume that cities had marketplaces for those who were not slaves or otherwise indentured, partucularly in ports that received an...
Hi Robert <<Tenorio wrote about the use of copper axes were being used as money by the Aztecs in Mexico, even describing them as circulating side by side with...
Hi Dennis <<There is a daily record by a crew boss from ancient He had a crew of just under 50 men and every day he recorded that each man received his...
Thursday, March 1, 2007 Dear Ancient Coin Enthusiasts! I am having trouble obtaining a high quality photo of a Glykon sculpture, for an article about Lucian of...
The Central Florida Coin Club is having their Spring coin show this weekend, 3/2-3/4, at the Orange County Fairgrounds Fri-Sun 9-6 daily. I will have my usual...
Friends; Here it is Spring already, at least in the Ozarks, and it's time for our popular quarterly discount sale. Effective now through Tuesday, March 6th...
... Thank you for that, Rob. A market : A public open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods If I have correctly...
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I was finally able to pick up the coins that were recovered from the Postal Inspectors office today. Of approximately 166 coins stolen 154 were recovered. The...
Hi Stephen <<but before I launch into a critique of YOUR definition,>> No need to shout Stephen, especially since a personal definition was very specifically...
I am leaving for paris on Wednesday. I have been there a couple times so I have seen all the major attractions. I'll be re-visiting many, especially the...
oops Earlier, I should have put 'The Oxford English Dictionary' That is to say - the 20 volume job I actually have the semi-microscopic (Compact) 1979 edition...
... No need to get your dander up, Rob, I wasn't shouting. ASCII doesn't give you a lot of options for indicating degrees of emphasis. Please try not to be...
... Thanks for the correction, I couldn't tell whether the other reference was something I could expect to access somehow or not. It was new to me. ... I know...
Stephen Peaders are surely finding this quibbling tiresome I already asked for evidence that there were markets in the ANE Please either state your evidence,...
Dear Steve and Rob, I see that you're having some difficulty finding a common place to have a starting ground for this definition. May I suggest something that...
Rob, Stephen and all: I know that I (can speak for anyone else here) would love to see this exchange either die out and be taken off list. I know I for one am...
hi all doing some more research......, as you know justinian II (1st and 2nd reign, was the first to feature Christ on his coins in about 685 AD. did the...
I asked this question last week but didn't get any responses, possibly because the server was acting funny and prevented people from accessing the photo. So...
Iconoclasm is the word you're looking for. That was the name of a theological belief and the social movement it spawned in Byzantium. The belief had at its...
... If this is a widespread feeling I will just drop it. I did not expect it to drag on for so long without result, but do not wish to try everyone's patience...
Hi Dave (Wilber) Thanks for speaking up - since no-one else did I guess your vote wins. However, I am curious to hear more of Stephen and Phil's views I...
Stephen et al; I have found this discussion on the existence of "markets" to be most enlightening and reasonably open-minded. It has taken me from the...
Hi Jim -- Justinian's first use of Christ portrait is assigned to 692 until he was deposed in 695. His 3 successors were brief (Philippicus lasted 19 months...
Hi Allen Just for clarification - my offer is not to take the discussion 'off group' in the sense of private exchanges - but elsewhere, to what is in my...
Rob, I'm in a bit of limbo with Early Electrum as I was a member a while back and since left the site do to inactivity. I've requested to come back on the list...
Well, I am late.... But if it serves I would like to continue reading and learning on this topic. By the way, I learned that ANE is the fertile crecent, but...
... I've checked further and there were no coins that had holy figures on them that were issued by Irene or the emperors before the 2nd Iconoclastic Period....
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