Talk:Aksumite currency
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[edit] Influences
Munro-Hay is a bit confusing here. He cites the end of SA coinage by the time of Aksum's minting era, yet he mentions the finding of Himyarite coins. Perhaps they're to be dated to an earlier date? ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 06:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Are we seriously suggesting that the designer of these coins had not seen Greek or Roamn coins? --Henrygb 18:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
The problem with western history is basically that it has not matured enough to overcome the bias of racism. It is unthinkable for even the most sober and rationalists of the historians to think, let alone admit, that an African country influenced western Civilization. Thus the screeching halt western civilization comes to after arriving to Greek civilization. What are we going to claim about everything leading up to the Greek Civilization, the Big Bang? There is now good deal of evidence that Ethiopian writing proceeded the Greek one. It is quite rational that influence should be assumed to have come from Axum, rather than the opposite, especially in the face of the fact that no evidences exists that suggests the opposite. Short of that, the least that can be said is that those dreaded brown people came up with their own coins! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.20.195.252 (talk) 20:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Name
Axum Coinage seems like a very arbitrary name to me. Why not Aksumite Coinage or Coinage of Aksum? — ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 21:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
- So can we get all the ancient currency page titles the same, maybe use coinage instead of currency. Enlil Ninlil 05:57, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
'Aksumite currency was the only native currency to be issued in Africa without direct influence by an outside culture like the Romans or Greeks,'
Is this attributed to Munro-Hay? There are many accounts of African currencies which, while much later historically than Aksumite coinage, could not be said to have resulted by 'direct influence of an outside culture.' Equiano's account of pre-colonial Gold Coast currency comes to mind. 172.130.162.104
- No, it was inserted by the person who began the article, [User:Enlil Ninlil|Enlil Ninlil]]. I believe he's trying to say that it was the first to be issued without direct infuence of an outside culture, unlike Egypt and (?) Carthage. It needs a source, though. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 14:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Value
> This may have reflected a desire to conform to the Diocletian monetary reform of 312
Diocletian was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305.
