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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2772960, member: 76086&quot;]I&#039;m glad Doug brought this up as I also consider the changes in terminology to be exhaustingly pretentious.&nbsp; When we are dealing with an unknown mathematicians (and others) just substitute &#039;X&#039;.&nbsp; That of course wont work for us, so we do the best we can.&nbsp; Back in the old days &#039;double denarius&#039; was a pretty good interpretation for the denomination.&nbsp; But with scholars being what they are we ended up with Antoniniaus after the emperor who introduced it.&nbsp; So, why a new name?&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t matter, we still dont know what it was called and never will unless a dusty old contemporary book is found somewhere (unlikely).&nbsp; I&#039;m still comfortable using older terminology, but as a dealer I know that when people use a search function things will get passed by.&nbsp; I mean, Centenionalis, Maiorana, AE1, they are really synonymous (maybe even add follis to that and nummus as well).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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