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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2916410, member: 19463&quot;]There are two different and conflicting standards here.&nbsp; Greek coins are numbered by diameter in millimeters.&nbsp; Late Roman coins were forced into those four size ranges with AE1 being largest and AE4 smallest as explained on my page linked above.&nbsp; As I said there, this is not a problem because there are no Greek bronze coins under 5mm so you know that AE4 and below are Romans and anything higher has to be a millimeter measurement.&nbsp; AE28 is a bronze coin 28mm in diameter.&nbsp; Should we be using one standard for both?&nbsp; Certainly but try to tell these scholars that they have to do something just because some other scholar did it that way in another book.&nbsp; At least no one is using some of the old arbitrary systems like the Mionnet scale anymore. </p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/monetaromana/corrisp/mionnet.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/monetaromana/corrisp/mionnet.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/monetaromana/corrisp/mionnet.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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