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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1945931, member: 42773&quot;]Guesstimation is the name of the game. For starters, we don&#039;t know what these coins were called. The term &quot;follis&quot; was adopted by numismatists for various reasons, none of them particularly convincing to me. Due to constant inflation, devaluation, and reform, I&#039;m not sure we should lump so many bronzes together under the name of one denomination. It gives the false impression that there was some homogeneity in the coins&#039; standards. The first post-reform folles of Diocletian, for instance, are a very different animal from the late folles of Constantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet we do the same in the field of US cents, for instance. The large cent is wholly different coin from the modern cent, but at least we know that both coins were called cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I find most interesting about your coin is the accuracy with which the <i>vota </i>can be used to date it. That isn&#039;t always the case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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