Longest continuous series of coins in your possession

I have two spans to list...

Byzantine Empire 491-715=225 yrs
AV Solidus Anastasius I
AV Solidus Justin I
AV Solidus Justinian I
AV Solidus Justin II
AV Solidus Tiberius II Constantine
AV Solidus Maurice Tiberius
AV Solidus Phocas
AV Solidus Heraclius
AV Solidus Constans II
AV Solidus Constantine IV
AV Solidus Justinian II
AV Solidus Leontius II
AV Solidus Tiberius III
AV Solidus Philippicus
AV Solidus Anastasius II so 491-715AD

Second one

France 1610-1940= 330yrs
AV Louis d'or 1641-A Louis XIII
AV Louis d'or 1690-I (Limoges Mint) Louis XIV
AV Louis d'or 1726-A (Paris Mint) Louis XV
AV Louis d'or 1786-K (Bordeaux Mint) Louis XVI
AV 20 Francs 1812-A Napoleon I Emperor
AV 20/40 Francs 1818-W (Lille Mint) Louis XVIII
AV 20 Francs 1830-A Charles X
AV 20 Francs 1848-A Louis Philippe
AV 20 Francs 1851-A Ceres Head second republic
AV 100 Francs 1862-BB (Strasbourg Mint) Napoleon III Emperor
AV 20 Francs 1904_A Marianne Third Republic

 

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I do have all official Roman Emperors and Caesars (35 in total, plus most of their relatives) from Julius Caesar to the Year 238, in bronze coins (most of them Sestertii).

 

@Julius Germanicus I think you should start a new thread and show us some of your favourites.

 

Ditto

 

Julius-G => you should definitely start your own thread ... you seem to have a lot of sweet coins (man, ya gotta love those nice big bronze babies, eh?)

 

If we are only counting Emperors, and not their wives or relatives, then I can count an unbroken chain from Caesar (44 b.C) to Pertinax (193 a.d).

If and when I am able to add Didius Julianus and Pescennius Niger the I could extend this to the reign of Severus Alexander (222 a.d).

 

Great Macrinus (despite the slab)!

 

I have the continuous run of emperors from Septimius Severus (193-211) through to Maximinus I (235–8).

So my collection represents an unbroken chain of 45 years of rule.

 

Please post a few of them when you get a chance. We all LOVE seeing what others have managed to collect!!

 

Will do, Mikey. One of my major unfinished projects is to photograph my entire collection! I do have a few nice photos that I will post, but they don't represent the full extent of this time period.

 

Beginning with Julius Caesar, I have continuous emperors through Commodus, 48BC-192AD or 140 years. Then I'm missing both Pertinax and Didius Julianus and pick up with Sep Sev through Maximinus I ending at Gordian I, another 40 years.

Julius Caesar

thru to

Commodus

 

Thanks everybody!

DIVOS IVLIVS / CAESAR DIVI F
Bronze, Italy, 38 BC
32 mm / 19,1 gr
BMCRR 108, Cohen 95

 

This is my latest Sestertius right now:

C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG / FELICITAS AVGG S C
Sestertius, Rome 255-258
29 mm / 16,46 g
RIC 157, Sear 10011
GÖBL/MIR 36, 73 g (six known pieces)

 

If you don't mind creating a new thread and post images of all these solidus, I would looooooooooooooooooooooove to see them

 

Hmmmm.... it is hard to define the complete span due to Usurpers, etc.

I now have 138 of the Roman Rulers (including Empresses, Usurper, Caesars, and Augusti), in which there are a TOTAL of 210, according to the RIC Rarity Chart and a few Provincials as discussed here on Coin Talk.

When I review my Roman Ruler Timeline pics, I have all the MAIN Augusti that are continuous from each Reign to the next. It creates a continuous Ruler handshake from the Beginning of the Imperial Period to Zeno I (whom is regarded as the last Ruler for the West)... Then it is to The Dark Ages for Western Europe... I have a very few Byzantines, enough to bridge me continuously into the 500's CE.

However, and obviously, not having them ALL; many of the Caesars or Usurpers are not in my clutches yet.

If you can see the pictured Timelines below, I possess the major Emperors and can trace from the beginning with Augustus (or Julius Caesar), through each of the major Augusti all the way to Zeno I... spanning the whole Empire. There are still several holes that I want to fill, however, my coins represent a continuous timeline with the Reigns of the Rulers that I have... (See the bold underline under each of the Augusti that represent their reign timeline)

I am still on a mission to acquire as many as I can, before price and availability become exponentially unattainable.

The Imperial Period is not my focus, but once I began to realize that many were attainable, the itch kept getting scratched. I still focus my efforts on the Roman Republic and those cities and states that interacted with them. That area is a more fulfilling Historical part of the Hobby for me!





RR Caesar AR Denarius 49 BCE Traveling Mint Elephant-Pontificates Sear 1399 Craw 443-1 Obv-Rev.jpg


RI Augustus AR Denarius - Obv-Rev Sear 1578 NGC4276216-007.JPG


RI Zeno 476-491 CE 2nd reign AE 10mm Monogram Obv-Rev.JPG

 

Dang, that is ridiculously cool!