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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2174852, member: 19463&quot;]I had to check this to be sure but going with the standard for Romans goes back to 1792 when Eckhel used the AE1...AE4 terms replacing names like Grand, Middle, Petite and Petite quinarius even for coins that we did know the names for.&nbsp; Modern usage abandoned the scale for coins before Diocletian but avoids taking sides on the matter like which coin is meant by Majorina and Centenionalis not to mention follis which really means little more than coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>A problem with the AE+mm scale is that coins were not struck with collars so the same dies on the same day could make AE20 and AE24 which confuses beginners who measure their coin and can&#039;t find it in the book.&nbsp; Of course these variations also mean that there are AE2 types that include specimens big enough to be AE1 or small enough to be AE3 which is similarly confusing.&nbsp; Perhaps it would be nice to make up a fictional name for each of the issues like we did for the antoninianus just to make things easy on collectors but we could never achieve a consensus on the names to use. Most of us just say we can deal with the way it has been since a century or two before we came along and just blame those old guys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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