I think it's worth citing Fronda in your intended MFB book, because he is the premier historian of the second Punic war today, and therefore
his insights into what coin
type commonality mean for historic alliances etc. will resonate more than if the observations were made by a non-historian
numismatist. He is pointing out especially close alliances that happen to mirror in especially close coin
types. The same point he makes regarding
Campania might have wider applicability.
Stickie: It might be worthwhile asking a moderator to sticky the
Maps discussion (probably the most enduring) and combining it with the website update threads (they can all be merged in date order), and with any other threads that address MFBs as their sole subject e.g. ROMAION, but not
River Gods. Then add on your reply above, and use that as the foundation
thread where people can dump further MFB observations as they wish. All this is presuming that a gentle moderator would agree to (a) Stickie (b) merging some threads you point to. There's a comparable long running Stickie on
legionary denarii that is probably much less important than this subject, so I'm hopeful.