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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 172542, member: 3565&quot;]I purchased a &quot;quarter size&quot; coin of Constantius II today which was labeled AE Centenionalis and after getting it home,I noticed that a few of my other coins of his which are smaller &quot;nickel size&quot; ones were also labeled as this denomination.I decided to do a bit of research and find out exactly which denominations were what sizes.</p><p>As it turns out,Centenionalis was just a generic term for some of the larger follis coins and is basically meaningless.Constantius II himself issued a new series of 3 coin sizes (no more Dupondis,Sestertius,Follis and As) each of which appers to be double/half of the next size.In order to avoid confusion coin collectors have come up with a scale to describe these coins by size when the correct denomination is not known.It works as follows:</p><p>AE1=over 25mm</p><p>AE2=21-25mm</p><p>AE3=15-21mm</p><p>AE4=under 17mm</p><p>So here are photos of three of the sizes AE1-AE3 all of the &quot;soldier spearing horseman&quot; series of Constantius II </p><p>from various mints.The large one is today&#039;s buy.</p><p>This was fast research so corrections are welcome from you other Roman nuts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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