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A detailed study of Tarentine coinage, exploring how historians read dates, monograms, and mint marks to place rulers like Attambelos I and Thionesios I in a timeline.
It highlights how early horsemen, hippocamp types, and dolphin riders shed light on Tarentum’s moneyers and their changing styles.
The notes reveal how weights can be irregular and how some reverses carry monograms or letters that may indicate mint officials or dating practices. The author compares dies, plates, and related references to build a chronology, while noting uncertainties and the limits of available casts and weights. This edition gathers numerous unpublished dies to illuminate the evolution of Tarentine coin design.- How scholars interpret obverse and reverse dies, and what monograms may mean.
- Dating challenges across rulers such as Attambelos I and Thionesios I.
- Connections between coin types (horsemen, hippocamps, dolphin riders) and Tarentine iconography.
- Comparisons with known catalogs and how weights and wear affect conclusions.
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Computing Jetons (Classic Reprint)
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the history of computing jetons, small tokens used for numerical calculations in the absence of convenient numerical systems. It begins with the ancient abacus and traces its evolution through various forms, including the line abacus that dominated practical calculation for centuries. The book also discusses the methods employed with jetons, the steps that slowly led to the modern calculating machine, and the prospects of developing simpler and less expensive devices that will render nearly all computation mechanical. The author endeavors to create an engaging overview of the human needs that the abacus, in its various forms, tended to satisfy. The text also delves into the possibility that ingenuity will, as stated above, devise a more efficient machine at a low cost so that human energy may be still further conserved through mechanical calculation. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781331933113_0
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