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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2959190, member: 72790&quot;]I think most numismatists use the principle of &quot;under whose authority were the coins minted?&quot; Autonomous states (client kingdoms) within the Roman Empire are usually classified as Greek until they were absorbed by Rome and placed under Roman administration. At that point they used to be classified as &#039;Greek Imperial&#039;. In my own collection I place my coins in chronological order so there is overlap of Roman and Greek coins and from the Third&nbsp; Century BC to the First Century AD I have my coins classified on that principle so that a coin from Cappadocia minted in 100 BC with a Cappadocian King is labelled a Greek coin while one from the same kingdom 200 years later under Trajan, with his image (though the language of the inscription is still in Greek) is a Roman coin. Tetradrachmas of Alexandria under the Ptolemies are Greek coins but from Augustus on they are Roman. I find this way of cataloging my coins to be a good one for me but I am not sure if there is some other agreed upon principle that is an &#039;official&#039; method of cataloging ancients.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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