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Message:: [QUOTE="bernard55, post: 5261057, member: 114733"][USER=109731]@otlichnik[/USER] thank you for your reply.  my apologies if you get this note twice as I was logged out while writing it the first time.    Each Ancient Coin website I visit seems to have a different way of referencing an ancient coin.   I am searching for what you as an expert expect when you hear about someone referencing a coin.  For example, with Greek coinage, is it better to reference the "Hellenistic Period" or "Alexander the Great" or "Seleucid Empire" or "Anatolia - Caria - Rhodos".   I have a website that several people use to manage their collections and I want to extend it to ancients but my current taxonomy (same as PCGS: Country, Type, Series, Year, Mint, Other..) doesn't seem to work well for the more serious ancients collectors. as an ancients expert, what are the 3 or 4 things I would need to tell you so you would know what coin (or set of coins) I'm referencing--and is it different from rome to arabic to greek etc..  as an example, is this correct?:it's a "Roman" "Denarii" referencing "Antoninus Pius (138 - 161)" from "the Nerva–Antonine dynasty (The Adoptive Emperors)" it's a "Greek" "Drachma" referencing "Alexander the Great" from "the Hellenistic Monarchies"[/QUOTE]