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curtislclay:
Instead of paper offprints, I have been given the link below to a digital reproduction of my review article on Woytek's book on Trajan. The review is perhaps too long (16 pages) to be reproduced in full in a Forvm thread.

The review contains the first academic publication of several discoveries that I have already explained on Forvm, namely my own discovery that the second-cent. Roman mint regularly produced ordinary asses in addition to bronze medallions late in each year for use as New Year's gifts on 1 January, and Colin Kraay's ingenious explanation of the phenomenon of overstruck reverse types on Roman coins. I mention in my review that my discovery of New Year's asses has already been presented on Forvm!

NC172_Offprint_211100_Review_Article_Clay

Pekka K:

One word of warning: don't let your silver coins touch
the paper of the plates. They leave nasty marks on
chalky paper.

Pekka K

helvetica:

--- Quote ---I would contend that arrangement by denomination, as practised for example by
MacDowall in his monograph on the coinage of Nero, is the correct route to the
desired goal. It is essential to group like with like. When we try to establish the
original order of types in a particular denomination, we want to examine only that
denomination, not what the mint might have been producing at the same time in other
denominations
--- End quote ---
I thoroughly agree - one of the most annoying books I often need to use is Svoronos' coinage of the Ptolemies. It has the most muddled arrangement of any book I know. In second place of the muddled stakes is Price, Coinage of Alexander III which also, under the various mints, mixes gold staters, tetradrachms, drachms, AE etc together according to fieldmarks.
I also contributed a couple of the new entries in Woytek's book, these had been sent to me for wildwinds and I sent them to Woytek. In order to check the existence of a second example of one of them, I flew to Chester Museum in England, to see one purporting to have been donated to that museum in the early 1800s. Alas, it was not the same coin (but I had a lovely time down in the coin vault with the curator [no, not THAT kind of a lovely time  :D])

SC:
Curtis,

Thank you very much for sharing your article offprint with us.  It is especially useful for those of us who bought the Woytek set despite having very limited German.

Shawn

Paddy:
Great, great stuff, Curtis Clay! Now that I have had Wotek for about a week, your review will be of great use! Indeed!

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