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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5316363, member: 109731&quot;]Interesting stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>One challenge that we face is that there is a difference between an official name - what a coin was called by those making it - and a popular name, which might be so popular it becomes effectively official.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the late Roman period we do have some records referring to things like, for example the maiorina.&nbsp; But really this just means something like &quot;the biggy&quot;.&nbsp; So was this an official name or a popular name?&nbsp; It appears in a law demonetizing it, so it was at least used by officials, but might not have been the original name.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting to compare to the history of the names of our North American coinage where we may have a pocket full of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters - not original names but now used even by the mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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