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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3296532, member: 87200&quot;]I agree with the sentiments above that you can only get about 85-90% of the emperors and usurpers. Some usurpers are known only from a few coins that have made their into museums or hands of collectors. If you branch out and collect wives, daughters, and other figures (like Agrippa) your collection will be much more representative. In a sense it is impossible to collect coins of every ruler because some known to history (such as the usurper Achilleus in Egypt) issued no coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also collect Byzantine coins but consider them separate from Roman coins at the time of the monetary reforms of Anastasius at the end of the 5th century. He introduced large bronze coins once again after decades where emperors issued infrequent quantities of tiny low-grade bronze coins. This new coin sometimes called a follis was worth 40 nummi.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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