One of the mantras one hears from the archaeological community is that an artifact without context is worthless from a scholarly perspective. It's refreshing then to hear from archaeologists that the iconography of coins does indeed give them quite a bit of meaning. See http://coinarchaeology.blogspot.com/2012/04/call-for-papers-art-in-round-new.html
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