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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2281356, member: 19463&quot;]I see this as over the border to ridiculous.&nbsp; The coin is attributed to Constantine VII but has the portrait and name of Romanus?&nbsp; I guess that means we should go back and reattribute all the coins of Crispus to Constantine I and start calling coins of Titus &#039;Vespasian&#039; unless they fell in the short period after the father died before Titus died.</p><p><br /></p><p>It gets worse.&nbsp; In times of cooperation mints under the control of one late Roman emperor issued coins for co-rulers and family from their mints.&nbsp; That means we have to rename some coins marked Licinius to Constantine and some Constantines to Licinius.&nbsp; When Constans and Constantius II label some of their coins in honor of their father or grandmother we have to figure out which ones are which so there are no coins of women or the deceased?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I see no reason the Romanus name and Romanus portrait can not qualify the coin to be catalogued as Romanus.&nbsp; If we must, we could say Romanus by Constantine like we say Constantius II by Vetranio.&nbsp; I am completely lost on why the Cherson can be allowed the Romanus name if the others don&#039;t qualify.&nbsp; Similarly, I prefer we label Anonymous coins by the class letters rather than the latest theory on which ruler was in power when they were made.&nbsp; They can remain Class E even if someone writes their thesis proving that we need to change which Constantine was then current. </p><p><br /></p><p>Someone might point out that most Parthian coins use the name Arsakes and that English king John used Henry.&nbsp; We coin people could be more consistent.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.numisology.com/Licinius.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numisology.com/Licinius.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.numisology.com/Licinius.htm</a></p><p>The above site handles this well.&nbsp; Notice how many people struck coins for Licinius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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