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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2161569, member: 26302&quot;]I agree with what you said, but especially the part &quot;did the Romans continue to use that word&quot;? Unfortunately almost no one in the ancient world wrote about coinage, so we simply have tiny little snippets to rely on. Since these coins changed so drastically, so quickly, we simply do not know if they called a coin a centenionalis for only a few years before they changed the name again, or if they called smaller and smaller coins that name, or what. So, absent any definitive information as to what the coins were called, (like we KNOW the early small silver coins were called denari), I prefer to not name them at all so as to not infer we know more than we really do.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A case in point. We read Constantius called that certain coin that name. What of the smaller coins that continued to be made? What were they called? Do we know or are we assuming the name and relationship? Do we know the exchange rates between them? As the coins shrank do we still know the names and values of the different sizes? Yes, the word centenionalis was used, but not often. I bet there are not more than a handful of references to that word from primary sources.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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