RBN publications are fully open access two years after publication. To respect this policy you’ll have to email me for a private PDF of this publication if you want to read it now instead of December 2027.
I’ll be honest not everyone who has read this article has thought it was methodologically sound, but any number of other colleagues have encouraged us to put our approach out there. I find it a little terrifying but also exciting to explore new means of comparing production using observed specimens per die. That said even if we’re wrong we’re still trying to say more with our data and hopefully provoking others to think with this data.
It’s been an intense semester and this would never have appeared if Lucia Carbone had not done the heavy lifting at the last push and supported and encouraged me to hold up my end earlier in the summer. Team work makes the dream work. As always I’m so grateful to our colleagues at RBN for timely feedback, eagle eyed proofing, and, of course, making our work look so good!
Below I give a little taster to hope you might be interested in reading more of our work. We synthesize all the numbered issues in RRDP that are numbered ODEC issues (One Die per Control Mark) and then test Esty’s formulae against the presumed unseens. We then propose a new means of displaying and comparing the same data, hypothesizing that the shape of the data is an artifact of production, one that can be used to compare one issue to another. Most exciting in the back half of the article we use is artifact of production to suggest how and where the Romans may have intervened in the production of coinage the Greek East.
P. 82-83
P. 85-86
Intrigued?! More interested in the Greek East in the time of Mithridates? Please request a copy of the article for your own private use.
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
Dear Liv,
I just returned to Los Angeles after a quick 8 days with Kip up in Los Alamos for Thanksgiving and then his birthday.
First and foremost, congratulations on the new publication. I do look forward to reading it (although some of it will surely be above my head) and if you can easily do so, please do send on the pdf.
I hope your time in London was both delightful and productive (from the posts, it appeared to be both!).
Best regards,
Kenneth L. Friedman of
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