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Message:: [QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 2774062, member: 10613"]There are two references to majorina in the Theodosian Code. "We have learned that some metal casters purge the majorina criminally and frequently, by separating the silver from the bronze. If any person hereafter should be apprehended in this trickery, he shall know that he has committed a capital crime. Also those persons who furnish the use of houses and lands to counterfeiters must be punished by the delivery of their property to the imperial largesses. Of course, Our Clemency must be informed of the names of such persons."        9:21:6 (12 Feb 349) "...evertyhing shall be sold with the customary freedom except the coins that are usually called majorinas or common centenionalis or other moneys which are known to be forbidden.    9:23:3 (8 March 356) in the above quote it is not clear if majorina and common centenionalis are two different names for the same coin or two different coins. of course we are not sure what these large AE1's were called but double majorina works out if consistently used; so you would need to call Julian's VOT coinage majorina, which weigh roughly half of the bull coinage. conversely, double majorina is always wrong, since majorina means biggest as in biggest coin, so the bull is of course a majorina (with no need to say double) and the VOT coinage is called something else, perhaps centenionalis.[/QUOTE]