Late Roman Bronze Coins

Assorted topics => Resources => Topic started by: Victor on May 12, 2021, 11:56:42 AM

Title: new page on Diocletian's Reform
Post by: Victor on May 12, 2021, 11:56:42 AM

I just put up a new page on Diocletian's reform and the theme is rebellion

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/Reform/

on a side note-- be very careful uploading your index pages, or you might overwrite your main index, like I carelessly did. I almost rage quit the internet  :D

luckily Google bots busily index my site everyday so I was able to look at their cached view of my page and copy and paste the page source...so, I actually didn't learn a lesson!  ;D

Title: Re: new page on Diocletian's Reform
Post by: Pharsalus on May 14, 2021, 07:23:21 AM

Very interesting read Victor, thank you for taking the time to put this together. Your website is a wonderful resource.

Do you know if a study has been done on the silver content changes through the series? I believe the first genio folles target 3 to 4% (with variation by mint), but was that also true of the Carthage and sacra moneta types?

Title: Re: new page on Diocletian's Reform
Post by: Victor on May 14, 2021, 01:26:46 PM

The best study is by Cope, L. H., C. E. King, J. P. Northover, and T. Clay. Metal Analyses of Roman Coins Minted Under the Empire. BMOP  120, 1997.

Though my metallurgy page starts later than Diocletian's Reform, the info is from the above book 

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/metallurgy/