Sometimes the hardest part of being a numismatic scholar is just knowing what has been published. Anyway, I was pulling bibliography on the quinarius for a footnote this AM and found out Meadows had put out this study in an edited volume relatively recently.
It appears in:
Ashton Richard and Nathan Badoud. 2021. Graecia Capta? : Rome Et Les Monnayages Du Monde Égéen (Iie-Ier S. Av. J.-C.). Basel Schweiz: Schwabe Verlag. (Full Table of Contexts via DONUM)
I very much like his use of hoard weight data for the denarii (reminds me of Duncan-Jones on gold minus the fanciful attempt to reconstruct wear and circulation):
And his stacked histograms for the quinarii where he uses weights from published collections are very visually satisfying even in grayscale.
The rise in underweight quinarii is particularly interesting here.
One potential for RRDP is to refine this type of weight data. In a future version of CRRO I’d love to see both histograms and box and whiskers auto-generated from the weight data of each issue. Averages are a poor means of conceptualizing this type of data, even misleading at times.
Ok back to my current book project. Time is precious.
Liv Mariah Yarrow 