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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4545414, member: 19463&quot;]I will continue to maintain that terms like rosette and pearl diadems is an attempt by scholars to force many things into a few categories for the sake of their system.&nbsp; Each mint and each cutter had the option of rendering a model as they saw fit.&nbsp; What looks like a rosette at one might not match the others.&nbsp; My example below is obviously pearl and shows two strands of small dots.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see that as the edge view of the central medallion more often shown unnaturally turned to the side so it shows on the coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125289[/ATTACH]</p><p>The question is whether Bing&#039;s coin has tiny rosettes or is just an intermediate variation showing the die cutter did not know 20th century students would expect him to cut from their list of options.&nbsp; This is a distinction for specialists who value these modern attempts at classification more than I do.&nbsp; Some series of coins assign new numbers to things like this while others lump them all into one group.&nbsp; I will value the terms more when they are shown to represent something meaningful like the difference between Consular and Military attire and not just a question of which piece of jewelry the die cutter liked that day.&nbsp; Such questions are interesting to some and some even pay extra for such minutia.&nbsp; I see it as studying the book rather than the coins so I do not compete with those who worship the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to see if there is a coded meaning to the diadems.&nbsp; Might they relate to a change of weight standards as did the drop from two standards to one in the common GLORIA EXERCITVS coins? That would provide a good reason to separate the series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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