Posted 09/10/2017 4:25 pm
My guess on why w she-wolf half the time? The Romans intrinsically had very long lag time for communications. By implication each mint didn't have ultra-precise down to the angle instructions for any given die. So that would mean that each mint ran quasi-autonomously BUT the director of that mint would very likely have approved each design. I have to believe that the accountability for dorked up designs, low weights, celator stupidity was brutal.
Then I know there was the concept of the different workshops within the mint. Given the numbers a mint would have to produce the head guy for each of the workshops probably had a very good amount of delegated authority and responsibility.
So in this context each design (1 w she-wolf, 1 w/o) are fairly powerful on their own, but at the workshop level a different execution path was chosen. Maybe someone could divine a correlation based on the exergual marks. Maybe someone could divine the order of designs (i.e. no she-wolf first, then added later) but that is beyond me.
Interesting observation. thanks!
Paul
Then I know there was the concept of the different workshops within the mint. Given the numbers a mint would have to produce the head guy for each of the workshops probably had a very good amount of delegated authority and responsibility.
So in this context each design (1 w she-wolf, 1 w/o) are fairly powerful on their own, but at the workshop level a different execution path was chosen. Maybe someone could divine a correlation based on the exergual marks. Maybe someone could divine the order of designs (i.e. no she-wolf first, then added later) but that is beyond me.
Interesting observation. thanks!
Paul
