Another Roman Emperor In The Bag!

In my neverending quest to aquire one coin of each Roman Emperor,I have finally nabbed the last one from the 3rd century (201-300 AD).
There were about 30+ in that century and I've been trying to find Tetricus and now he's mine.haha....and he was only $15:smile a cheap emperor.There were actually two guys on the throne at the time,skirmishing back and forth and eventually Tetricus was exiled,but not killed,by the next ruler, Aurelian.

 

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Mikjo0,

Congratulations to you. Although I'm not into Ancients or Medival ......I really like your posts. There're always informative and very interesting. :thumb:

and you never know I might just have to pick up a few. After all I went from the liteside to the darkside.
Of course GOLD would be my desire!!!! (Dang, Doug.. see what you've turned me into !!)

 

Thank You,
So maybe I shouldn't post pics of my 7th century Byzantine gold or my celtic gold staters from 100BC.Wouldn't want to corrupt you.

 

Yep, you know your ancient stuff :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: Nice coin too

B

 

I would like to see pics of celtic gold staters and of course the associated history lesson !!!:whistle:

 

How would I go about starting to understand coins enough to begin to make a collection like that(all emperors)?
I think there could be alot of fakes on ebay and im too new to know the difference.
Any books I could read, or suggestions people?
Hoody

 

"In my neverending quest to aquire one coin of each Roman Emperor,I have finally nabbed the last one from the 3rd century (201-300 AD)."

Congratulations! Your posts always inspire me. Based on the coins I have now, I might be able to put together a decent series called "Rulers with Unfortunate Facial Hair."

 

Hoody, I would recommend getting some books. Any of the books on ancient coins by Wayne G. Sayles are great books in my opinion. I might suggest starting with "Ancient Coin Collecting". I think that you can see it here on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873495152/104-4220654-1500726?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Oh, and Mikjo0, congratulations on getting another nice coin for you Emporers.

 

Or how about "Bad Boys of Rome"?

(Caligula, Elagabalus, Commodus...)

 

tcore is absoloutely right.Sayle's book is great and it is the only book on ancients I own.Here it is,with an example of a typical couple of pages,with maps and all.

 

And just when I was feeling a sense of "completeness" I went into a shop,looking to maybe start working on the last few 4th century emperors when I spotted this.At first I thought it was an incorrectly labeled coin of emperor Carinus but it turns out it was his dad who was the big cheese for about a minute (7 months to be exact) barely enough time to crank out his own coins.
The coin is somewhat scarce and was originally layered with a silver wash over bronze.You can still see remnants of it in places.
Live and learn...