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August 21, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
June 18, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

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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)[reply]

Are we seriously suggesting that the designer of these coins had not seen Greek or Roamn coins? --Henrygb 18:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Without influence? Really? When the coins have GREEK lettering? When it states in the article that they were trading already with Rome? If you want to say the design came from someone from Aksum, and that they were created only in Aksum, no problem, but to say that there was no influence then mention that they likely reason for developing coinage at all was due to trade? That's a problem. The coins with profiles are very similar to those countries that Aksum was trading with. They're clearly influenced by outsiders. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.145.251.34 (talk) 21:58, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They have Greek lettering because of trade! That does not equate to the influence in minting them in the first place 2A02:C7C:36FF:3600:6144:DD80:C1DF:620E (talk) 01:08, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

'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)[reply]

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.

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review.

There are still a few areas that could be improved. Some sections, like "Pre-Christian period" and "Decline", could be expanded and referenced. The structure of the article is altogether a bit confusing, and a separate "History" section, tracing the entire period in question, would help. Though referencing is good, it is virtually a single-source article (Munro-Hay); if other sources could be found that would help with reliability. There are two works (Coin comparison) cited at the bottom, and I assume they have been used for the "Weight standards" section, but this is not acknowledged with inline citations. Lampman (talk) 18:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]