Saúl Roll-Vélez

Esta obra teatral del Siglo de Oro es excepcional ejemplo de la dramatizacion de un tema clasico por Rojas Zorrilla. El tema que desarrolla este dramaturgo de la escuela calderoniana tiene extraordinaria vigencia dado el innovador papel que tienen sus protagonistas femeninos en el contexto de un codigo de honor sumamente patriarcal. El texto, mejorando la ultima edicion del mismo, de la epoca romantica, se basa en la edicion de 1640 del propio Rojas.

ABSTRACT, sort of: Just so that you know whether or not reading this whole thing is worth it for you, I have to say that what follows is a long general introduction to cleaning ancient coins,
followed by painfully detailed description of a very simple method, which can be summarized as follows: Rinse the coin, dip it in acetone, dip in distilled water for a few weeks, changing the water often, carefully remove dirt and encrustations under a microscope with diverse instruments during several sessions over several days, treat it with sodium sesquicarbonate for bronze disease if needed, dry the coin, dip it in acetone again, coat with Micro-crystalline Renaissance Wax. There are a lot of digressions throughout; that's because I believe that the more you understand about the nature of coins, the better decisions you can make to treat them properly.

The pre-reform CONCORDIA MILITVM antoniniani of Maximianus are often miscatalogued for print and online sales. This is due in part to several errata in RIC (Vol. 5, part 2). Two hundred and seventy antoniniani were studied in order to establish an accurate list of mint marks, obverse legends, and reverse legend divisions. As the antoniniani were studied, there emerged a pattern in the reverse legend division and mint marks pointing to the order of mint output. This pattern implies that the opening of the mint of Heraclea is likely to have taken place in spring of AD 293 or thereabouts. Also, it is ventured that the CONCORDIA MILITVM antoninianus might have been minted at Siscia, a city not mentioned in RIC. It is further suggested that the CONCORDIA MILITVM coinage might have served as a testing ground for the impending coinage reform of Diocletian. The type continued to be minted virtually unchanged after the reform and could have provided a model for the standardization of the coinage.