Coins

Over the past fifty years, archaeological excavations in Israel have unearthed about half a dozen ancient synagogues that were in use at different points in time between the first century BCE through the outbreak of the Bar-Kochba rebellion early in the second century of the Common Era.  In close proximity to each of these synagogues, a mikveh (ritual bath) has been discovered.  In contrast, no mikvaot have been discovered adjacent to any of the dozens of later synagogues that have been excavated and studied, with only one or two possible exceptions. 
At this point it is impossible to determine exactly when mikvaot ceased to be built in connection with synagogues, as the archaeological record reports very little about synagogues of the late second - early third century CE.  From an archaeological perspective, it is clear that at least from the second half of the third century, synagogues began to be built without regard for proximity to mikvaot.
Talmudic sources make no mention of a requirement to build mikvaot adjacent to synagogues. To date, no satisfactory explanation has been given for the evident connection between the synagogue and the mikveh in the early period, and the disappearance of such a connection in later periods of synagogue history. The objective of this paper is to present and explore a possible interpretation of this puzzling phenomenon.
  During the Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods, a rabbinical enactment was in effect requiring mikveh ablutions prior to engagement in Torah study and prayer for individuals who had experienced seminal emission. Careful study of the Talmudic sources reveals that this enactment was nullified early in the Amoraic Period, sometime during the second quarter of the third century CE.
It would appear that the mikvaot built adjacent to the earlier synagogues were intended for this precise function, serving visitors to the synagogue who required ritual ablutions prior to Torah study and prayer.  Once the rabbinical enactment regarding these ablutions was nullified, there was no longer need for such mikvaot, and hence the absence of mikvaot in proximity to the later synagogues.

After the death of Alexander III in 323 BC, the coinage in his name and with his types continued to be issued by his successors. This posthumous coinage has been the object of various studies and discussions in the past decades because of the important volume of the coinage and also because of the difficulties of the attribution.

The present paper will discuss the posthumous Alexanders that were produced in various city-kingdoms in Cyprus, in Egypt (Memphis and Alexandria) and in Cyrene from 323 down to the end of the fourth century, also in relation to the local autonomous coinages of those areas. The above areas of control of Ptolemy I present a certain interest because the coinage in his own name and image replaced as early as the end of the fourth century the coinage in the name and types of Alexander, while his numismatic policy was particular and unique. In parallel, the paper will address in detail questions of attribution -or reattribution- of series and the circulation of those coinages abroad, based on the hoard evidence.

The Jewish revolt against Rome in 67 C.E. has been variously characterized as a spontaneous reaction to political/economic oppression, a messianic holy war, or as some combination of the two. 1 In part, the diversity of opinions can be attributed to the methodological approaches of the investigators, but a greater portion of the controversy is due to the frustrating scarcity of data and the nature of the early witnesses to the Revolt. With the exception of Josephus's writings (and perhaps the Megillat Ta`anit, or "Scroll of Fasting"), no texts have survived that can be attributed to the participants in the Great Revolt

This MSc thesis contributes new information to and original analysis of the topics of Viking-Age silver hoards and Irish monastic settlements, as well as their respective usefulness for understanding the early medieval Irish economy. Historiography regarding the early medieval Irish economy has been affected by colonial and nationalist myths, creating an image of a rural and subsistence-level society that was poorly integrated into the larger Viking-Age silver economy and primitive in nature. Furthering Revisionist arguments, this thesis challenges these assumptions by demonstrating Irish ownership of silver hoards and the economic roles of monastic settlements (which may have served as proto-urban sites). 
The research entailed a mixed methodological approach. Primarily, data regarding silver hoards and settlements in Ireland (both Irish and Hiberno-Norse) was plotted within a GIS system to allow for distributional analysis. Measurements were taken from the created maps to provide quantitative data, while discovered trends and relationships were qualitatively analyzed within a comprehensive historical context. These methods were complemented with a historical critique of a coin database, allowing for more detailed study of the content of hoard finds.
The results of the analyses revealed a strong relationship between silver hoards and monastic settlements (with mostly coins found at these sites), substantiating the economic significance of the latter. Additionally, many hoards were found inland and deep within independent Irish kingdoms. Few hoards were found to be randomly deposited. Rather, most were associated with either Irish or Hiberno-Norse settlements, as well as borders between kingdoms. Such promising results illustrate the need for more extensive research on both silver hoards and the Early Medieval Irish economy, both of which possess complexities that require further elucidation.

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether encourage the owners of computing resources to bring ever-increasing levels of processing power to bear in validating the distributed ledger of cryptocurrency purchases and sales.  Initial coin offerings (ICOs) involve the sale of cryptocurrency coins or tokens with the aid of on white papers.  Crypto coin white papers involve a mixture of scientific, sociopolitical, and economic speech.  They often contain extended arguments for how users of the coins and the Internet or society in general could benefit from a new way of organizing economic relations, assembling and deploying assets, or exchanging messages or entitlements.  While they share some similarities with forms of commercial speech that enjoy quite limited First Amendment protection, they are arguably more similar to other economic statements that enjoy First Amendment protection against censorship, or to direct advertisements that are deemed insufficiently misleading to result in civil liability.  Nevertheless, some interpretations of U.S. securities and commodities law would prohibit authors of such white papers from raising funds for crypto coin platforms if the coin's users expect to earn a return on their investment and rely on the coin issuer's expertise or representations. 

This article explores principles of free expression that could shield truthful speech and subjective opinions about new crypto coins from some of the worst chilling effects of U.S. laws.  It examines ways in which crypto coins may benefit marketplace participants and economic efficiency, including by providing a beneficial alternative to traditional software app stores, logistics infrastructures, or banking and payment systems.  It then surveys the First Amendment and other constitutional issues that onerous regulations raise, and draws analogies to doctrines that reconcile the freedom of economic expression with the cause of consumer or investor protection under the Lanham Act, the Securities Exchange Act, state deceptive practices laws, and the law of warranties.  Several themes in the case law are ripe for application to ICOs: the need for precision and proportionality in framing regulation, the proscription against regulatory overkill and one-size-fits-all approaches, and the requirement that basic freedoms be preserved.  More specifically, the securities or commodities are not properly read as applying to many crypto coin offering papers, and describes other concepts such as virtual commodities or virtual barter systems from other jurisdictions that may be a better fit. 

The article urges American lawyers and judges to probe thoroughly whether the interests served by prohibitions and penalties on crypto coin speech justify the burdens imposed on information providers. Regulating false statements of existing fact and enhancing the remedies for making them will be more effective and less constitutionally infirm measures than those aimed at preempting merely potential harm.  Courts must balance the values of fraud prevention and remediation with the values of freedom of expression and expanded economic opportunity.  Analogous fields of law provide several tools with which to achieve this balance, including the distinction between general or universal fraud prohibitions and narrower securities or commodities regulation regimes, the difference between forward-looking and other statements in several area of fraud law, First Amendment principles governing professional and occupational licensing, and rules against vague or discriminatorily enforced regulations. 

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Özet: Makalede Osman Gâzî'nin İbrâhim Artuk tarafından yayımlanan ilk sikkesi hakkındaki bâzı iddiâların bilimsel tenkidi ve 1980'li yıllarda ünlü nümismat Nicholas Lowick'in R. P. Lindner'le birlikte inceledikleri, ancak o zamandan beri nerede olduğu bilinmeyen ikinci Osman Gâzî sikkesinin fotoğraf ve çizimleri ekseninde; Osman Gâzi için hutbe-sikke gibi şartların oluşup-oluşmaması, ilk Osman Gâzî sikkesinin sahte olduğu iddiâları, "İstiklâl-i 'Osmânî" hakkında öne sürülen yaygın görüşler ve kuruluş dönemi ile ilgili diğer tartışmalı meseleler yeniden ele alınmıştır.

Resumo: O presente artigo busca discutir a ficção para além do ψεῦδος (pseûdos) no mundo grego. Para tanto, examino o estatuto da ficção e do ficcional a partir de moedas falsas. Na relação do homem grego com sua moeda, falsa ou verdadeira, deparamo-nos com situações em que moedas falsas são autorizadas a integrar a circulação, tornando-se, consequentemente, equivalentes às verdadeiras; há também moedas falsificadas capazes de pôr em xeque as verdadeiras; e ainda as falsas que podem se tornar mais verdadeiras do que as reais. É preciso notar que o contraste vocabular entre ψεῦδος e ἀλήθεια (alétheia) não permite perceber a fluidez da fronteira entre uma ideia e outra. Donde, talvez, a contribuição de observar como essa mesma fronteira se comporta nas práticas do mundo grego pouco familiares às noções de ψεῦδος e ἀλήθεια (como no caso das moedas), mas que, inevitavelmente, participam de sua elaboração e sofisticação. Tais práticas ajudam, assim, a explicar o pacto de ficcionalidade no teatro clássico.
Palavras-chave: falsificação; moedas falsas; moedas verdadeiras; ficção; teatro.

LA CONTREFAÇON ET LE THÉÂTRE GREC: DEUX FACES D'UNE MÊME PIÈCE
Résumé: Dans cette réflexion, je voudrais discuter la fiction au-delà du ψεῦδος (pseûdos) dans le monde grec. J'examine, pour ce faire, le statut de la fiction ou du fictionnel, en particulier dans les fausses pièces. Dans la relation de l'homme grec avec sa monnaie, tant réelle que fausse, on est confronté à des situations où il y a des pièces fausses qui sont autorisées à intégrer la circulation et, par conséquent, sont équivalentes aux vraies; ainsi que pièces contrefaites qui sont capables de mettre en échec la vraie monnaie; et encore des contrefaites qui peuvent devenir plus réelles que les réelles. Il faut noter que le contraste entre ψεῦδος e ἀλήθεια (alétheia) ne permet pas de percevoir la fluidité de la frontière entre une idée et l’autre. D’où, peut-être, la raison d’observer comment cette même frontière se comporte dans les pratiques du monde grec, en principe pratiques peu habituées aux notions de ψεῦδος e ἀλήθεια (comme dans le cas de la monnaie), mais qui, inévitablement, ont participé à leur élaboration et à leur sophistication. Et qui aident (ces pratiques) à expliquer le pacte de fiction au théâtre classique.
Mots-clés: contrefaçon; fausses pièces; varies pièces; fiction; théâtre.

The Roman du Comte de Poitiers is chiefly known for the elaboration of the wager motif in the first half of the romance, where a valiant noblewoman is publicly accused of infidelity and later exonerated. The second part of the romance has been less frequently studied. It contains a highly unusual depiction of a group of women who are commanded to disrobe so that their virginity may be ascertained. It is generally agreed that the two parts of the story are unrelated. In this article I argue that the two articulations of female honor and humiliation are closely associated and that they serve as an example of a more pervasive rhetoric of "visible honor" found in other romances of the French 12th and 13th centuries.

How did the ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ change social and economic networks in eastern Gaul, and how did new ‘barbarian’ political frontiers shape those changes? Synthesising historical and archaeological approaches, this interdisciplinary study combines text-based prosopography with distribution analysis of ceramics and ‘pseudo-imperial’ coins in Burgundy and beyond. The study reveals that the frontiers of the second Burgundian kingdom (5th-6th centuries) curtailed traditional movements along one of Europe’s key riverine corridors and reshaped, temporarily, the mental geographies imagined by local Gallo-Romans, until Merovingian princes conquered the region. The book includes the most thorough assessment to date of the distribution of Burgundian coins found across France. Illuminating the Burgundian kingdom’s internal dynamics and its foreign relations, this assessment revises current understandings of the circulation of gold money across sixth-century Gaul, correcting over-generalisations that can obscure the importance of political frontiers at the end of antiquity.

Аннотация: В первой трети XVIII в. произошли большие потрясения для Испании: был утрачен ряд территорий в Европе, взошла на престол новая династия. Изменился и государственный изобразительный девиз на монетах, чеканившихся на американских монетных дворах. Как относились к государственному изобразительному девизу те, кто был ответственен за его изображение на монетах? Как он сам изменялся на монетах разных монетных дворов? Данная статья отвечает на эти вопросы. Собственный знак для глав монетных дворов был важнее государственного изобразительного девиза. Отношение к государственному изобразительному девизу со стороны испанской знати можно справедливо назвать пренебрежительным. Также к пренебрежению испанской властью можно отнести расцвет контрабанды и коррупции среди должностных лиц. И сами испанские власти во многом попустительствовали этому даже на эмблематическом уровне в первой половине XVIII в.-качество чеканки монет ухудшалось до 1740-х годов, монеты нового типа с полушариями между колоннами стали распространяться только с 1750 г. Часть брактеатов, которыми были вынуждены расплачиваться жители американских колоний, имела ярко выраженный геральдический характер. Это говорит о нужде в геральдике на самом низком уровне коммуникаций.

funeral token of a family ancestor of the famous bankers van Lantschot
when rich people got buried, they wanted the poor to pray for their souls in the churches where they had their tomb
they made a money gift to the church and the churcg issued a token, that the poor, after praying could exchance for food, clothing or charcoal

In 2010–2011, archaeological excavations in the Vítkovo Sq. in Prčice (the Sedlec-Prčice agglomeration)
were organized. A large sunk construction (V51) interpreted as a lower part of a residential building seems
to be the most important discovery there. Among other objects, two coins come from the filling of the
construction – a denier struck under the Duke Frederick (Cach 1972, no. 628) and an anonymous precisely
undated denier struck in an unknown Hungarian mint (Huszár 1979, no. 145). The enormous importance
of the finding context in Prčice is necessary to be confronted with the written sources – Prčice is connected
with the beginning of the Vitkonides dynasty. The coins can give precision to dating of the finding context –
to the period directly connected with the beginning of the dynasty.

Vegerių kaime (akmenės r., iki 1921 m. priklausė Žagarės valsčiui; 1 pav.), apie 30-40 m į pietus-pietryčius nuo 1944 m. sudegusios medinės baž-nyčios (statyta 1766 m.), aptikti du rusijos imperijos monetų lobiai. Jų likimas nežinomas, tikriausiai pateko į privačias kolekcijas. Neatmestina galimybė, kad tai galėjo būti ir vienas dviejų dalių lobis. m. 1 rublio sidabrinės monetos (2, 3 pav.). 1 pav. Vegeriai. 1860 m. kauno gubernijos žemėlapio (iX-2 lapas) fragmentas

Recensiones ISSN 2386-8643 www.revista-hecate.org-195-NORA E. MATASSI, La política cultural de los Borbones en Casa de Moneda de la Nación. Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte, San Francisco, 2018. Edita: Fondo Editorial «Emilio Paoletti» (120 pp.; 24,5 x 17,5 cm.; blanco y negro, con algunas ilustraciones a color). o primero que diremos de este breve, pero novedoso trabajo de la Lic. Nora Matassi es que se trata de una obra difícil de encuadrar en alguna rama o materia específica de las ciencias sociales, pues su contenido versa sobre numismática (específicamente sobre notafilia), pero a la vez, no deja de ser un libro de historia del arte, al cual también, sin duda alguna, acudirán historiadores, encontrándose los mismos (podemos decirlo sin tapujos), plenamente enriquecidos con su lectura. El título, a primera vista, se revela como desconcertante, incluso, anacrónico. No obstante, podemos asegurarle al lector que, tras la lectura de este libro, comprenderá la exactitud del mismo, entendiendo entonces que su elección fue excelente y acertada, pues en sus páginas se materializa de forma perfecta la frase que acompaña al título de esta obra: «de la excavación al libro, del libro a las especies valoradas». Para decirlo en otras palabras: en sus páginas se observa, con minuciosidad de detalles como, mediante el grabado por talla dulce, distintos artistas fueron replicando, como testimonio, las obras rescatadas durante las excavaciones realizadas en Herculano, trabajo que quedó muy bien documentado en Le Antichità…, que a su vez, fue la obra de referencia utilizada como modelo e inspiración por los grabadores de la Escuela Italiana que trabajaron en Casa de Moneda en los años '40 y '50. Por ende, con el estudio del trabajo de Matassi, se obtendrá una visión histórica global a la hora de analizar los diseños iconográficos de las especies valoradas emitidas por Casa de Moneda a mediados del siglo XX. Hasta el momento, dicho análisis histórico no se había hecho, y desde ya, entendemos que esta obra contribuye enormemente al estudio académico de dichas emisiones, ya que las dotan de un marco histórico, cuyas raíces, pueden ser rastreadas hasta las mismas obras artísticas de Herculano, una de las dos importantes villas romanas sepultadas bajo densas capas de material volcánico tras la violenta erupción del Vesubio en el año 79 d.C. 1 La obra de Matassi se divide en cinco capítulos bien estructurados, a través de los cuáles se cuenta desde una somera descripción de Pompeya y Herculano bajo los romanos; el descubrimiento y excavaciones realizadas en esta última ciudad; la política cultural emprendida por Carlos III en torno a estos hallazgos y, finalmente, sobre le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte y su llegada a la Casa de Moneda de la Nación. 1 Tradicionalmente, se ha considerado que este desastre natural acaeció el 24 de agosto de ese año. Sin embargo, la reciente evidencia arqueológica ha confirmado que la erupción volcánica (tal como se suponía en base a ciertos indicios, entre ellos numismáticos), se produjo un poco después, quizás en septiembre u octubre. L

The Roman numismatic coins of the Silla History and Archaeology Museum (Valencia, Spain) are made
public. It is a museum that gards coins which come from two archaeological excavations recently made in
two villae located in its municipal district: La Font del Gat and Silla, last one in the historical centre of
population. Four high-imperial coins were recovered in the first villa, without archaeological context, and
in the second one a monetary set was found, made up of by a ring and four coins; three ases of Claudius I
of Hispanic mint and an as of Galba, which appeared in a Roman thermal bath, in the middle of the trench
of the foundation of the wall that separates the changing area of the space which gives way to the cold area
or an unctorium. Probably it is a foundational deposit with votive components. A brief current situation of
the knowledge has been done of the ancient numismatic in the region of “L’Horta Sud” of Valencia.
Se dan a conocer los fondos numismáticos romanos del Museo de Historia y Arqueología de Silla. Se
trata de un museo que custodia monedas provenientes de dos intervenciones arqueológicas efectuadas recientemente
en dos villas romanas localizadas en su término municipal: la de La Font del Gat y la de Silla,
esta última situada en el centro histórico de la población. De la primera villa se recuperaron cuatro monedas
altoimperiales sin contexto arqueológico y de la segunda se halló un conjunto monetario, formado
por un anillo y cuatro monedas: tres ases de Claudio I de ceca hispana y un as de Galba, el cual apareció
en unas termas romanas, en mitad de la zanja de fundación del cimiento del muro que separaba la zona
de muda del espacio de la sala fría o de un unctorium. Se trata de un probable depósito fundacional con
componentes votivos. También aquí se hace un sucinto estado de la cuestión del conocimiento de la numismática
antigua en la comarca de l´Horta Sud de Valencia.

v posledných troch desaťročiach sa archeologickými výskumami, počas prieskumov polí a ako náhodné nálezy objavili viaceré počítacie žetóny. Sú zaujímavé, pretože pochádzajú aj z dosiaľ neznámych lokalít a vyskytli sa medzi nimi tiež viaceré žetóny na Slovensku neznámych typov. Ďakujeme všetkým nálezcom, z radov archeológov, pracovníkov pamiatkových úradov, múzeí, tiež súkromných zberateľov, ktorí poskytli svoje nálezy na publikovanie, lebo tak výrazne doplnili fond týchto pamiatok používaných v minulosti na Slovensku.

Бери Эгнаташвили, Ахали Картлис Цховреба (Новая История Грузии), перевов текста с древнегрузинского на современный грузинский язык и коментарии Георгия Маджарашвили, издательство «Новый Ивирон», Тбилиси, 2012."

ბერი ეგნატაშვილი, ახალი ქართლის ცხოვრება - ტექსტი ძველი ქართულიდან ახალ ქართულზე გადმოიტანა და კომენტარები დაურთო გიორგი მაჭარაშვილმა

Reflet de l’imagerie du moment, l’iconographie des monnaies grecques apporte une vision « matérialisée » de l’histoire des cités (polis). Parfait support de l’idéologie, la monnaie se révèle constituer un élément « majeur » dans la diffusion des thèmes propres à chacun des émetteurs. Parmi les innombrables sujets illustrés par la monnaie, nous avons choisi d’aborder celui de l’olivier, arbre « nourricier et mythique » du monde méditerranéen qui continue à faire la réputation de notre région. Ce motif, généralement « secondaire » sur ces frappes, accompagne sous diverses formes des compositions très variées.

This article forms an epilogue to the volume "Civil War in Ancient Greece and Rome: Contexts of Disintegration and Reintegration" (ed. H. Börm, M. Mattheis, J. Wienand; Stuttgart 2015). The cover of this volume is adorned by a reworked sestertius of the emperor Caius Iulius Verus Maximinus (AD 235–238), better known to posterity as Maximinus Thrax. The epilogue is dedicated to this exceptional coin and its historical context, reflecting the key themes of this volume: The coin was originally produced as part of an extensive issue of coinage in celebration of victory over the Germans in 236 – the victoria germanica of the reverse legend. It presumably entered circulation as regular pay or as part of a special donative to a member of the imperial guard or a soldier of the legio II Parthica. It was reworked after the emperor’s death in the civil war against the senatorial emperors Pupienus and Balbinus in 238: It now showed the unfavorable end of Maximinus Thrax, whose decapitated head ended up on a pole and was paraded through the streets of Rome. This coin is thus a fascinating testimony to civil war: in striking fashion it illustrates the impact of internal and external wars on the Empire, and how such conflicts were conceived by the various protagonists. The coin is also one of the most striking examples of the damnatio memoriae of a defeated emperor. The modifications that radically altered the coin’s message cast a spotlight not only on the dramatic events of a violent regime change but also on the strategies with which those involved sought to integrate a new political and ideological order.

The book will be available November 2015
http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/60680.html

This paper studies banknotes and coins with woman images on the obverse side,    privilege site, in Paraguay since the establishment of the guaraní as currency in 1943  until 2012. It unfolds the late appearance of a woman image (1963); the continuity of a traditional image of a peasant woman (1963-2012) –a traditional rural essentialism-; and even a recent banknote of 2009 containing two teachers reflects domestic chores (mother and teacher) to the outside world, within the labor market. Ideological constancy of the reverse of those images in banknotes and coins is also important due to masculine partenaires, which reveals solidity, as they interact in the urban area and, mainly, symbolizes an upcoming present or progress in opposition to a frozen image of women in the rural past. Furthermore, even on the 2009 banknote, those two women are fixed (obverse) while a student parade marches toward the future (reverse).

El análisis de billetes y monedas con imágenes de mujer –en el anverso, sitio de privilegio- en el Paraguay (1943-2012), desde el establecimiento del guaraní como signo monetario hasta el presente, permite señalar la tardía emergencia de la imagen de mujer (1963); la persistencia de una imagen tradicional de campesina (1963-2012), esto es, un esencialismo rural tradicional; aún la aparición de un billete con dos maestras en 2009 es una extensión al ámbito público (mercado laboral) de tareas tradicionales (madre-maestra). La continuidad ideológica de estas imágenes con los reversos de los billetes o monedas es también importante pues resulta en acompañantes masculinos, que evidencian solidez, se mueven preferentemente en el espacio urbano y, fundamentalmente, representan al presente que avanza o el progreso en oposición a la inmutable imagen de la mujer en el pasado rural. Aún en el caso del billete de 2009, las dos mujeres están fijas (anverso) mientras que un desfile estudiantil masculino avanza hacia el futuro (reverso).

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