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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 952733, member: 26302"]Fair enough Doug, but the vast majority of collectors do follow the same guidelines as to attribution. I do not see many "late Roman" listed as byzantine by dealers, or vice versa. Maybe "Dark Age" is more arbitrary, but last I heard most collectors lumped gothic coins before about 450 into "Roman imitation" versus "Dark Age", and vice versa. I was just asking if that was still true, but maybe answered my own question. Yes, they are voluntary, but commonly followed as to make research material etc easier to understand. If I have a Leo I am reaching for RIC and not DOC. Most collectors like categorizing, and these arbitrary cutoffs are just, arbitrary. They help collectors but hurt real understanding of transitions. Ask Justinian who he ruled over, he would tell you he was Emperor of the Romans. He had never heard of a country called Byzantium, except for the old Greek city. Where did you hear that Ras is coming out with a new edition? I was going to buy his previous one, but he quickly talked about a second edition so I held off buying it. Note to any author, if you want to sell a book do not start talking about coming out with a new, improved edition! Lol.[/QUOTE]