QUESTIONS FREQUENTLY ASKED ABOUT THE MONETA REFERENCE EDITION


FUNCTIONALITY

1)  WHAT DOES THE MONETA REFERENCE EDITION DO?   
       The Moneta Reference Edition is a subset of the classic Moneta program - it has the reference materials and the
       built-in databases of legends, mint marks, and cities.  It will not catalog your collection or generate any printouts.
       It is meant as a handy, inexpensive search engine and knowledge base for Roman coinage.

2)  CAN I USE THE MONETA REFERENCE EDITION FOR OTHER ANCIENT COINS THAN ROMAN?
       NO. The Moneta Reference Edition is only targeted at Roman coinage, both imperial and provincial.

3)  DOES THE MONETA REFERENCE EDITION CONTAIN A MASSIVE PHOTO DATABASE? 
       NO. Moneta Reference Edition contains slightly over 200 photos which are used to illustrate the ruler biographies and 
       denominational information.

4)  HOW MANY MONETA REFERENCE EDITION INSTALLATIONS CAN I MAKE WITH ONLY ONE LICENSE? 
       THERE is no pre-set limit. Our license agreement is meant to encourage collecting as a family activity, and you can install
       Moneta on any computers in your home, those of your direct family, and even an office computer. Just send us a brief note
       explaining the circumstances and requesting an additional authorization code. 

5)  CAN I INSTALL MORE THAN ONE MONETA REFERENCE EDITION PROGRAM ON MY COMPUTER? 
       YES, although the need for more than one Reference Edition would only depend upon the number of notes you enter on
       the Reference screen, since otherwise the program is read-only.  If you don't need to share the program with others who
       wish to make different notes there really is no need for multiple copies on a single computer.  However, if you wish to do so:
         On Windows XP and earlier Windows operating systems things are simple:    Just be sure to install each time to a different
       location on your computer. Moneta Reference Edition will keep the databases straight.  The only limitation is that you can
       only have one copy of Moneta Reference Edition open on your computer at any one time.
         Sadly, Microsoft Vista makes it a bit more complicated.  On Vista you can only have one installation in the "Program Files"
      directory.  We suggest for all subsequent installation that you create a new folder in the root directory (normally C:\ ) and
      install into that.  For example, if you are doing volunteer work for the excellent organization "Ancient Coins For Education"
      (ACE), we suggest you create an "ACE" folder in C:\, and make another installation into that.  For your ACE coins, the
      directory structure would then look like C:\ACE\Numus\Moneta2Ref\MonetaRefdb.  Your data for installations in the root 
      directory will be actually stored in that folder (now there's a concept!) instead of the Microsoft-mandated Users directory
      structure for the original installation in the "Program Files" folder.
         With all Windows operating systems, if you have a problem that you need to run a repair on a data table, or wish to do
      a data restore you should ensure the last Moneta program you ran was the one you want to repair or restore data to.

6)  CAN I INSTALL MONETA REFERENCE EDITION ON A REMOVABLE DRIVE TO MOVE IT BETWEEN COMPUTERS? 
       YES.  The only requirement is that Moneta Reference Edition has been previously installed on the computer that you want
       the removable media to run on.  This is because Microsoft installation standards dictate the location of some necessary files
       on media other than the removable media.  This can be accomplished in two ways:
         a)  Moneta Reference Edition can be installed as normal on the target computer.  When a valid authorization code is entered
              on that computer it is set to receive Moneta running from removable media - of course the local copy of the
              Moneta Reference Edition can still be used also (though not simultaneously with the removable media copy).
              Once Moneta Reference Edition is set up on the a computer, the Numus directory can be copied to the removable media
              and run from there on any computer which has Moneta Reference Edition installed.
         b)  You can also install directly to removable media whether or not your computer has Moneta Reference Edition previously installed.
      In summary, there are two things to remember:  1) as always, only one copy of Moneta Reference Edition can run on any computer
      at one time, and 2) the removable media database and the "fixed" copy database (if any) are not automatically synchronized in any way.
      If you have changed the database by making notes, the easiest way to synchronize the databases if you wish to do so is to copy the
      entire Numus folder over the older Numus folder, overwriting it.

7)  I WANT TO RUN MONETA REFERENCE EDITION ON A MAC.  WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS?
      Unfortunately Moneta Reference Edition will not run native on a Mac.  However, you can run Windows on OS X using the 
      BootCamp functionality.  That allows you to boot into either Windows or OS X.  Of course the catch is that you have to buy
      and install Windows on the Mac.  
      Another solution that some customers are using is to run Moneta Reference Edition on the Mac using Parallels:
            http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/?from=homepage 
      Parallels allows you to run Windows sessions from within the Mac OS, so you just boot up in OS X and then
      can just run Windows programs as desired without closing your Mac environment or programs.
      Both solutions unfortunately require the purchase of a Windows operating system, but fortunately the Moneta Reference
      Edition is backwards compatible through at least Windows 2000, so an older Windows OS may be used.

TROUBLESHOOTING

1)  I JUST APPLIED THE LATEST UPGRADE, BUT MY VERSION NUMBER DIDN'T CHANGE!  
      Nearly always this is the result of unzipping the download to the wrong location. The default location is
        C:\Program Files\Numus\Moneta2Ref. If you customized during installation, you have to know where you installed
        the Moneta Reference Edition. 

3)   I GET A MESSAGE SAYING “INDEX” IS OUT OF DATE OR CORRUPTED, OR A MESSAGE ABOUT “BLOB ERROR”. 
        You can send an email to Numus requesting tech service
        assistance (currently free), or you can try the data repair utility - the instructions are here.

4)  WHY CAN'T I TYPE A 'j', 'u', OR 'w', AND WHY IS A CAPITAL 'W' THE GREEK SIGMA INSTEAD OF OMEGA?
        The legend fields use the Numus Moneta font which is mapped to Greek in upper case and Latin in lower case. Since Latin had
         no w's, they are simply ignored if you type it (similar to Moneta changing lower case j's to I's and u's to V's (this matches Latin usage).
        So Moneta is actually interpreting your lower case entries as someone typing Latin, and it is automatically correcting for common errors.
        The Numus Moneta font in upper case is mapped to the Greek alphabet and uses the standard classical Greek Polytonic keyboard layout.
          See
          http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts/keyboard.html
           or
          http://www.jcu.edu/language/llc/keyboard-setup-greek.htm
         Since coinage used no diacritical marks, the Numus Moneta font only maps the main characters - those not using the diacritical marks.
        There are two forms of lower case s used in classical Greek, one form at the end of a word and another form used anywhere else. In
        the Polytonic keyboard the w key is mapped to the form that ends words. However, coinage did not use that convention either, so
        instead of making the w key a special form of s we simply repeated a mapping to sigma (a repeat of the mapping of the S key).
        Note that omega is mapped to the V key, per the standard Polytonic Greek Keyboard.
        If you're confused, use Shift+F12 while the cursor is in a legend or mintmark field and the Numus Moneta font character map appears.