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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4961681, member: 110504"]Consider the (following...) source, but they're all valid categories, with [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]'s valuable elucidation about the transition from 'Republican' to 'Imperatorial,' especially in reference to the coins.</p><p>...Except, once you get to the 'Imperial' ones, there are as many sub-phases as you might expect from a half-millenium interval. Starting with the Julio-Claudian and Flavian imperial dynasties, which cover most of the 1st c. CE. After which, there are the Antonines, covering most of the 2nd.</p><p>Then there are the Severans, c. late 2nd century -about 235.</p><p>After that, the real fireworks start. From about 235, with the emperor Maximinus, you get about a half-century of the 'Barracks emperors,' a period when the imperial office was held largely (with prominent exceptions) by generals. The average reign was something like 2 1/2 years. This period saw the secessionist 'empires,' conspicuously in Gaul (mostly France) and Britain.</p><p>Then you get Diocletian, definitively rescuing the empire from total chaos. The later 3rd century is known for simultaneous co-emperors of a reunited empire. Here's where you run into the phrase, 'the Tetrarchy,' because of how the empire's administration was split up, between the eastern and western parts.</p><p>From there, you get Constantine I, and most of the last two centuries of the western side of the empire.</p><p>...The 'Provincial' coins are mostly of the same, Imperial period --with conspicuous exceptions, back to Republican and Imperatorial.</p><p>...If, by now, all of this was redundant, please receive my cordial apologies. Your posts are already conveying the impression of someone who is learning, Fast. ...Anyway, best of luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4961681, member: 110504"]Consider the (following...) source, but they're all valid categories, with [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]'s valuable elucidation about the transition from 'Republican' to 'Imperatorial,' especially in reference to the coins. ...Except, once you get to the 'Imperial' ones, there are as many sub-phases as you might expect from a half-millenium interval. Starting with the Julio-Claudian and Flavian imperial dynasties, which cover most of the 1st c. CE. After which, there are the Antonines, covering most of the 2nd. Then there are the Severans, c. late 2nd century -about 235. After that, the real fireworks start. From about 235, with the emperor Maximinus, you get about a half-century of the 'Barracks emperors,' a period when the imperial office was held largely (with prominent exceptions) by generals. The average reign was something like 2 1/2 years. This period saw the secessionist 'empires,' conspicuously in Gaul (mostly France) and Britain. Then you get Diocletian, definitively rescuing the empire from total chaos. The later 3rd century is known for simultaneous co-emperors of a reunited empire. Here's where you run into the phrase, 'the Tetrarchy,' because of how the empire's administration was split up, between the eastern and western parts. From there, you get Constantine I, and most of the last two centuries of the western side of the empire. ...The 'Provincial' coins are mostly of the same, Imperial period --with conspicuous exceptions, back to Republican and Imperatorial. ...If, by now, all of this was redundant, please receive my cordial apologies. Your posts are already conveying the impression of someone who is learning, Fast. ...Anyway, best of luck.[/QUOTE]
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