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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3187676, member: 19463&quot;]Thanks to you both.&nbsp; I feel bad not finding that H16.248 but the Running script will take some getting accustomed to. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This confuses me greatly.&nbsp; The Hartill listing only gives the difference of 16.284 and 16.286 as a matter of size and my coin is the size of 286 which is ~.5mm smaller.&nbsp; If size matters little, what are you seeing on my coin that makes it 16.284?&nbsp; I would have preferred that Hartill mentioned or illustrated some feature that caused him to separate the two.&nbsp; What is the distinction?&nbsp; Mint? Date? 284 being more coarsely cast?&nbsp; This reminds me a bit of some of the late Roman coins that appear with different numbers in two places in RIC because one was issued during the period that there was a co-ruler and the other followed the death of that co-ruler but the coins of the type can not be separated easily into the two groups.&nbsp; His note under 16289 says the value two coins were made in a specified time and place but it is unclear which issue (above or below the note) was involved or how you are to tell the significant points.&nbsp; Perhaps I am missing a point on the catalog.&nbsp; Is this a listing of specific coins in a collection like we see in BMCRE where duplicates were given separate numbers even when there was no rel distinction being made?&nbsp; I do note also like in Roman references an inconsistency in the way things were cataloged.&nbsp; H16.248-50 are listed as having &quot;Variations in characters&quot; with 248 having bao feet like mine (claw or not?) but there are no words like claw, long, short, spread or deficient as used on the next two pages of bao variations.&nbsp; I was foolish to expect the book to be any easier to use than RIC. The impression is the author assumed all users already knew all about the subject so it was not his place to clarify things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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