Regling is much wordier than
Pick, but I do have in universally openable RTF format my running partial translation of
his account, two pages with source pages interspersed, of as much as wasn't too detailed for such treatment. I can send this as an attachment to anyone who wants it.
The long and short of it is that R. found greater
consistency in
weights and measures at
Tomis than
Pick found in the middle of
Moesia Inferior; it did require averaging a goodly number of coins. The A< the
and the
< are obviously related by doubling. A as such doesn't occur,
nor does the E of
Marcianopolis,
et al. The B and the
, as such, have to be regarded as more like the other cities' B and
. See attached
denomination chart.
Regling was also concerned to ascertain whether
< really was larger (D. and Wt.) than
, and not, as seems to be the case elsewhere, almost wholly dependent on the
obv. type (two heads) and the
rev. mark. The second attachment shows what he concluded.
Only
Gordian and
Tranquillina coins underscore the four-and-a-half value by marking it;
Regling found the Philip & Otacilia and the Philip &
Serapis issues to be consistent. Ergo. (The one, no. 2734, for Septimius antedates the system, I think; anyway, it is the glorious one with a great
Herakles reverse, very rare--still so, I think, and the
obv. die looks at least as early as Barbarus issues elsewhere).
Possibly one of the
German members who also owns
AMNG would like to refine and expand my account; as I said, I can send by e-mail the RTF
doc. that I made to send to friends about five years ago.
P.S. It is convenient to print out the scanned attachments here "to fit the media", i.e., enlarged.
