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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5272205, member: 109731&quot;]Bernard, I am glad I am not the only one who often writes a message and then realizes I was not logged in.&nbsp; I do it all the time....</p><p><br /></p><p>For the kind of taxonomy you are talking about there is no single answer.&nbsp; The OCRE site, associated with the highly professional American Numismatic Society, is certainly an excellent one to follow.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here are a few examples of challenges.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins, like those from Nicaea above, were issued during the Roman Empire, by towns in the Empire, for local use.&nbsp; They often have legends in Greek.&nbsp; They are known as Roman Provincial - to distinguish from Roman Imperial, Roman Imperatorial, Roman Republican, etc.&nbsp; But they are also widely know as Greek Imperial.&nbsp; To me Roman Provincial makes sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage of Judaea or Nabataea is listed in many sources, especially older ones, as Greek.&nbsp; Greek, Judaean.&nbsp; Yet they aren&#039;t Greek at all - not part of Greece, not a Greek colony, often don&#039;t use Greek on the coin.&nbsp; This was simply because to some authors of the past the taxonomy was Greek or Roman or Post-Roman.&nbsp; So under Greek went Greek and Judaean and Celtic, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>All this to say there is not perfect or universally accepted system.&nbsp; It is not like biology where you classify your insect collection using &quot;the proper way&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find that the more comfortable you are with your collection, and the larger it is, the less info you need. If I look at my 80 or so Seleucid coins.&nbsp; Some of the ones I got first have Greek, Seleucid, Antiochos III at the top of the tag I wrote.&nbsp; Later tags had Seleucid, Antiochos III, dropping the Greek as it was obvious to me.&nbsp; Now that I have three trays of only Seleucid my tags start Antiochos III.&nbsp; I figure that even if I get hit by a bus tomorrow whomever my family takes the coins to to sell will be able to figure it all out by context.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if I have a tray of widely diverse coins I would start each tag with Greek, Roman Imperial, Bactrian, Chinese etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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