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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3816693, member: 76086&quot;]Well, no, its actually a word, meaning &#039;purse&#039; and refers to the bags that such coins were typically stored in when conducting large transactions.&nbsp; The truth is we dont know what these coins were called, so at some point (I am unaware of who &#039;coined&#039; the term) someone invented a name for the coin.&nbsp; This happens with a lot of Roman coin denominations where scholars simply invent things to try to categorize what we can never really know (unless someone finds a dusty old book outlining such things, which is not going to happen). </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, &#039;Byzantine&#039; is another misnomer.&nbsp; Its just a category really, made up to divide and compartmentalize history.&nbsp; It&#039;s still the Roman Empire, just a different time frame.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly, I would suggest that the &#039;Byzantine Follis&#039; is really just a continuation of the sestertius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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