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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7784941, member: 115909"]That’s actually pretty interesting because I had a very similar idea when I bought my quadrigatus. I was going to aim for a victoriatus after that and then a Republican denarius as a sort of theme showing Roman silver coinage over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was going to start with the early didrachms (like the one with a horse head on the obverse and stalk of wheat on the reverse), then the quadrigatus, then the victoriatus, followed by good sized, high purity denarii (Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius etc.,) from the early Empire and then some smaller and less pure denarii from the middle Empire (Septimius Severus, Caracella etc.,) followed finally by some antoniani (Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus etc.,) showing the debasement in the denarius and antoninianus as they got smaller and less pure until the reforms of Aurelian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7784941, member: 115909"]That’s actually pretty interesting because I had a very similar idea when I bought my quadrigatus. I was going to aim for a victoriatus after that and then a Republican denarius as a sort of theme showing Roman silver coinage over time. I was going to start with the early didrachms (like the one with a horse head on the obverse and stalk of wheat on the reverse), then the quadrigatus, then the victoriatus, followed by good sized, high purity denarii (Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius etc.,) from the early Empire and then some smaller and less pure denarii from the middle Empire (Septimius Severus, Caracella etc.,) followed finally by some antoniani (Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus etc.,) showing the debasement in the denarius and antoninianus as they got smaller and less pure until the reforms of Aurelian.[/QUOTE]
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