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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3002694, member: 19463&quot;]I prefer the AE1 to AE4 system since you can avoid people thinking they have something different when their 17mm coin is cataloged AE16.&nbsp; Nummus means nothing beyond &#039;coin&#039; and some coins are bigger than others but were still the basic coin of their period.&nbsp; Inventing names is bad enough (antoninianus) but worse is (mis)applying a name scavenged from history when we are unclear on how/when that name was used in every circumstance (centenionalis).</p><p><br /></p><p>However we do it, there will be problems.&nbsp; Coins struck without collars will vary in diameter and systems like AE 1 through AE4 can not be applied with dogmatic fervor.&nbsp; I have one falling horseman which is usually AE2 that was hit extra hard and spread to 25mm making it technically an AE1.&nbsp; I prefer to call it an AE2.&nbsp; I have no problem with the use of AE3/4 for those coins that straddle that border.&nbsp; Part of me would like to have conventions like using AE3 for the two soldiers/two standards type and AE4 for the one standard style (which is smaller) but we have enough confusion as it is and I can live with the conventions in use for over a century as long as we realize that we don&#039;t always know what the coins were called and should not let that bother us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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