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Message:: [QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 4596802, member: 10613"]No, I am not taking a side, my position is merely if you cite a reference use that reference. So if you use a RIC number, your mint is Rome...no confusion there. There is a lot of literature on this topic and I am not familiar enough to argue one side over another...I use RIC though and certainly would not cite Lugdunum second hand through a Sear reference from Giard. There are other circumstances with disputed mints, this is not that big a deal, if you must, you can put different mints with different references. If you think this is confusing, start researching Postumus...I often just put "Gallic mint" for him. This situation might also be similar to the Postumus mint problem, what language do you speak? People that speak different languages might have different theories that do not gain traction due to the language barrier. Despite the language issues, there is a hierarchy in references, and though I like the Sear books and have all of them, I almost never use them as a reference, as they are far too general.[/QUOTE]