Longest continuous series of coins in your possession

What is the longest period of time covered in your collection for which you have all of the rulers?

For me it starts with Augustus in about 27 BCE on continues unbroken to Domitian in CE 96. (Though my Domitian was struck in the first few weeks of his reign)

Post the beginning and ending coin and any in between.

 

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Considering my relatively small collection of silver (60 coins) which stretches from Europe all the way through to Asia, and from ancient times to medieval times, I have more gaps than I can shake a stick at, so my answer will be very sad and pathetic

* 16 years of continuous leadership!

 

I have a set of Chinese coins that has all the rulers and most of their reign titles from 960 to 1127 AD.

 

i can make a pretty darn good byzantine run...

anastasius..



justin i...




justinian i (left) and justin ii (right)...




tiberius ii...



maurice tiberius...





phocas....



heraclius and heraclius constantine (is it cheating if they are on the same coin?)...



constans ii...




so 491 AD -668 AD.

 

I don't have Theodosius 590 to 602 otherwise that would be the longest.
Seleucus I 312 to 280

to Seleucus II 246 to 226

86 years

 

Cool posts everyone!!!

If we consider rulers in the Imperial sense, then I have Augustus through Maximus missing Gordian I and II....if we exclude the rare Gordians, I continue further to Macrianus with a break at Quietus----I suppose that's arguably about 300 years or so.



Hey, where did that 'tiny' photo of Maximus come from ...and what the hay......that's a photo of a (gasp) slab

 

Too much plastic and not enough coin porn. I'm unsubscribing as your follower. I expected to see more coin on coin action, not plastic. This isn't a plastics convention.

 

From a US collector: what a cool batch of coins!!!!!!

 

Thanks. In terms of endless varieties, deities, animals, architecture, and historical characters on ancient and medieval coins, US coins ain't got nothing on us.

Not that US coins aren't cool, because they are, but it's a different type of cool.

 

The longest Roman Imperial ruler run that I have is 10, mostly from the Tetrarchy era. I've been collecting Roman Imperial rulers for almost 5 years and I've made it up to 110.

Here is my Roman Imperial ruler coin grid at tantalus. Just hold your cursor over a coin if you want to know what it is.

http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/grid288.php



Romulus Caesar, son of Maxentius, AE Follis. Rome mint, ca 309-310 AD.

OBV: DIVO ROMVLO N V BIS CONS, Bare head right.

REV: AETERNAE MEMORIAE, Domed shrine without columns, RBP in ex.

REF: RIC 207 Rome, Cohen 6.

I've been treating this coin. Now, here is the before photo.

 

That's a terrific 'ruler grid' !! Love what you did!

 

taht's a cool gird GG... i didn't know multiple coin images would if you hovered over the main pic. you got quite a spread goin' on there!

 

How about Nabataeans? The earliest coins are the Proto-Nabataean overstrikes of the mid-3rd century BC. Two of the kings had two queens each, so you have Aretas IV with Huldu and Shaqilat, and Rabbel II with Gamilat and Hagaru. Sylleaus was a would-be usurper, a vizier of Obodas II who vied for power in 9 BC before being executed by the Romans. The series culminates in AD 106 when Trajan annexes the Nabataean kingdom as Provincia Arabia.

I suppose I should have added all the dates but I'm sure you've all memorized the Nabataean kings' dates by now...

 

Well, I think my claim to fame is that I have a coin from every one of the coin centuries ...

Yup, I have at least one example from every century, spanning 600 BC through-to-date (20th century AD) ...

=> 27 consecutive centuries!! (wait, is that good math?)

Ummm, that's gotta count for something, eh?

 

That is pretty slick!

 

Nice coins everyone, I especially like John Anthony Nabataean set something I have not seen before, my longest run of rulers is Julius Caesar through to Marcus Aurelius. 46-45 BC Dupondius Italy, 13.05gm 26mm. Divus Antoninus Pius AE Sestertius struck under Marcus Aurelius

 

*Edit*

 

Thanks so much for enlightening posts/ great photos. I am pretty busy, but I will see what I can come up with in next couple days/ probably will be in Byzantine coinage.

 

More good stuff! Thanks guys.

 

Great grid mate, you've been busy by the look of it.