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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3116268, member: 19463&quot;]That is an opinion matter.&nbsp; Some people would consider Valerian the first of the late emperors or at least admit that he is not far from that line since his son Gallienus did seem to invent silvering about the time Valerian died and some people would say silvered coins are late.&nbsp; Others reserve LRB worthy lateness for Diocletian&#039;s reform or RIC volume VI but I don&#039;t like saying Diocletian&#039;s pre reform coins (in RIC V) are not late if his post reform coins are.&nbsp; Everyone seems to accept Constantine as late.&nbsp; I&#039;ve even had people say they don&#039;t collect &#039;late&#039; coins while talking about the Severans but that is mostly an attitude of people who consider 12 Caesars and the whole empire too late to collect.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I were forced into a definition,&nbsp; I might say the start of late would be after the end of sestertii (Gallienus has them as does Postumus - Aurelian has bronzes that may have been intended to be sestertii but are too small to count in my opinion). </p><p><br /></p><p>When is Early Empire?&nbsp; Through Commodus?&nbsp; Middle? </p><p><br /></p><p>These labels are artificial and made by collectors who believe everything has to be packaged neatly.&nbsp; History is not easily forced into pigeonholes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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