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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2558093, member: 19463&quot;]This thread highlights a situation that come up here rather regularly that may bother some people and not others.&nbsp; We post photos of coins.&nbsp; It can be hard to tell the difference between large coins and small coins from the photos we post.&nbsp; Pishpash started this thread showing a &#039;follis&#039; of the size used by the first Tetrarchy under Diocletian which tend to be 25+mm and 10+g.&nbsp; Unfortunately &#039;follis&#039; means rather little more than &#039;coin&#039;.&nbsp; Before long fractions of folles were discontinued and the only coins issued were closer to 2g than anything else.&nbsp; We have no idea what the Romans called them but collectors keep the name follis until we get the Fel Temp Reparatio series in the late 340&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We do have a convention to avoid the situation.&nbsp; Collectors call coins over AE1 = over 25mm; AE2 = 21-25mm; AE3 = 17-21mm and AE4 = under 17mm.&nbsp; Pishpash&#039;s OP was and AE follis.&nbsp; I hope all beginners that see this thread realize the OP comment</p><p><br /></p><p>referred to the 10+g &#039;hefty&#039; coins not the under 2g &#039;blow away in the wind&#039; versions.&nbsp; Diocletian improved the monetary system with his reform giving us the big follis.&nbsp; What he had in mind was definitely what the Roman world saw happen in a very few years.&nbsp; I wish we would start new threads to show coins not related to the theme of the OP rather than piling anything and everything on as we tend to do. Can we make our threads a bit more educational to beginners who stumble upon our postings?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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