It's a very interesting subject that a lot of sources (the ones I've read anyway) sort of gloss over with 'we don't know what they were called so here's the system we use to name them now.' If there's more information out there that'd be really cool.
Your sistem is good enought... "I have no idea about the name of this coin, but their measures are..." In Europe we were able to maintain a war between England and france for 116 years; our war to expell the moors from Spain lasted since 711 till 1492... I think that perhaps we enjoy complicating things... :D
Of course, that particular USA custom originated in the writings of men like Humphrey Sutherland, R.A.G. Carson, John Kent and other editors of the RIC catalogs, LRBC and so on. Very British, would ya saye.
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