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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3440721, member: 80804&quot;]In the &quot;millennium edition&quot; of Roman Coins and Their Values, David Sear refers to the (largest) &quot;crown-size&quot; Alexandrian Provincial leaded bronze pieces of this era as hemidrachms. He doesn&#039;t seem to list anything as a &quot;drachm&quot;. I have no idea why he decided to swim against the stream in the denomination nomenclature department. I know of no other source of authority which calls these anything but drachms. Since I have Emmett (and it&#039;s far more inclusive and complete in the Alexandrian department than RC&amp;TV) I have never searched the fine print of RC&amp;TV for an explanation for this shift, although he may have included some words of explanation for the change somewhere over the course of 5 volumes, 4 of which have largish Alexandrian sections for every Imperial personage who was pictured on or issued coins in Alexandria, and in which the commentary about shifting denomination names and varying weight standards is scattered through the catalog in little italicized, mostly paragraph-length &quot;asides&quot;.</p><p>All that said, I am a great fan of RC&amp;TV for the Imperial series - I wouldn&#039;t want to allow a question about peripheral nomenclature to negatively affect opinions of what is otherwise a masterful work. The several other nomenclateural &quot;updates&quot; he makes in the Imperial series make perfect sense. They simplify and help to de-mystify the often confusing and disparate naming of various (mostly LRB) denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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