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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3123975, member: 19463&quot;]There is a trick.&nbsp; RIC separated coins by mint, then by issue and finally by ruler shown.&nbsp; Wildwinds, however, put coins of each ruler on a separate page.&nbsp; In this case, 200 is a coin of Constantine I, 201 of Crispus and 202 of Constantine II.&nbsp; Often the dating of issues involves who is included and who is not.&nbsp; There are no coins of the dot xSIS dot coins for Constantius II so that issue is dated to the time before he was on the scene.&nbsp; The later issue for Constantine shown below also comes in a version naming Constantius II but not for Crispus so we know it came after the end of Crispus&nbsp; and after (or along with) the start of coinage for Constantius II.&nbsp; The two crescents also come for Constantine II allowing us to date those coins as well. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]795571[/ATTACH]</p><p>You are not expected to &#039;get&#039; all this unless you specialize in the coins to some degree but it is good that you understand how the scholars that wrote the catalogs were able to figure out the dates.&nbsp; Again their footnotes are helpful in many cases if you want to read them but I consider it more important that beginners realize that these things are based on something other than hunches.&nbsp; After all, someone, someday will have to pick up where these authors left off and figure out the meaning of various rows of blocks and why some of them have dots or other decorations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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