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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Archeocultura, post: 3649227, member: 97204&quot;]When the first catalogs were composed about more than one collection in the mid 18 hundreds, only types were documented. Advancing into the twentieth century, the elder scientists clung to the &#039;types&#039; idea, but later catalogs showed more variants like in the Constantinian coinage. Personally I am a fan of &#039;the more detailed, the better&#039; sort of cataloging, but that depends on your goal in collecting.</p><p>One of my collections is copper coins from the mint of Arles in France from its beginning in 313 AD until the reign as Augustus of his son Constantius in 337, which seems a very short period. Modern scholars like Philippe Ferrando distinguish over a thousand copper coins with their variants!</p><p><br /></p><p>Frans[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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