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Asses - Clarification

As this term is used in this article, that means "a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden." Correct?

This may seem like a silly question, but "Before the introduction of coinage in Italy the two important forms of value in the economy were sheep (pecus), from which the Latin word for money (pecunia) is derived, and irregularly shaped pieces of bronze known as aes rude (rough bronze) which needed to be weighed for each transaction."

That is the barter system.

Was 1 as (the coin) equal to the value of 1 donkey?

Christopher Theodore (talk) 02:05, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Spam links

An IP inserted two spam links: http://coinproject.com/search_emperor.php?emp=Constantine-I-(The-Great)&city=&type=3 and http://coinproject.com/issuer_list.php?sort=alpha&type=6. The links have advertising banners at the bottom of the page by AdChoices. Soon after, I was reverted by a registered account on the basis that: Please check the link before removing as spam. You would be hard pressed to find a better/more complete list of Gens which issued Roman Republican coins anywhere, and Not spam, nothing for sale. It is a database of 60%+ known types of coins of Constantine sorted by RIC # (standard reference for his coins. Given the presence of the advertising banner, I still think that these are spam links, and I have removed them again per WP:ELNO. I would like some feedback from the regulars here. Thank you. Dr. K. 16:08, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously? This non-commercial site has a rotating banner at the top and a google ad banner at the bottom of the pages to help offset the costs associated with running such a massive site. Between both it probably generates $500 a year in "revenue", which is a small fraction of the cost of a dedicated server, development and maintenance. I performed a search of other sites which I know have much more intrusive google ads and I am finding dozens of external links to each of these sites. As an experiment search Wikipedia for acsearch.info. --Salsany (talk) 16:16, 23 August 2017 (UTC) I am a numismatist. My "day job" is cataloguing coins and photographing them. I can assure you that there are half a dozen sites which I consider indispensable to my job. One of them is commercial (http://cngcoins.com) and the others are non-commercial but have non-intrusive ads such as coinproject.com, wildwinds.com and acsearch.info. This IS my field/profession and it is also my hobby. If no external links are permitted to have any ads whatsoever then 90% of all external links on Wikipedia need to be removed. --Salsany (talk) 16:16, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

PLease see WP:ADV where it is stated:

It is obvious that a link from Wikipedia to an external site may drive Web traffic to that site. But in line with Wikipedia policies, you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent—even if Wikipedia guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked. When in doubt, you may go to the talk page and let another editor decide. This suggestion is in line with Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines.

As I have already stated, I think this site should not be included. Let's see what other editors think. As far as other external links, I think WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS applies. Dr. K. 16:45, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If involvement in Coinproject.com qualifies, that is only slightly less offensive than saying anyone that is a member of the American Numismatic Association or the American Numismatic Society (I am a member of both, and a life member of the ANA) can't participate in any discussions related to US numismatics. Coinproject is a primary online resource for Ancient Numismatics. Frankly, I give up. If moderators can't judge links by their content I would prefer to waste my free time on other things because I find this slightly offensive. Salsany (talk) 16:52, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clarifying one more point. Ancient Numismatics is a relatively small field. The odds of someone that occasionally contributes to ancient numismatic articles on Wikipedia also contributes to help at Coinproject or other community resources is probably 50/50, because let's face it, people that volunteer to contribute to things like this aren't doing it for the recognition and they do it in many different ways on many different sites. Salsany (talk) 16:57, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]