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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 6218559, member: 80783&quot;]My whole collection neatly fits into the three trays of my wooden coin cassette (Leuchtturm Volterra de Luxe):</p><p><br /></p><p>- The first tray holding 20 coins of up to 48 mm size is filled with the matching number of as large as possible bronzes of the 12 Caesars and their family members.</p><p><br /></p><p>- The second tray holding 30 coins of up to 39 mm perfectly matches my 30 Sestertii of the Adoptive Emperors and Severans including their families.</p><p><br /></p><p>- The third tray fitting 48 coins of up to 30 mm is holding the 23 Sestertii of the soldier Emperors up to Postumus and their wives and Caesars now plus some space left for silver (or maybe someday gold) coins that later Emperors issued.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds good but there are a couple of issues:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I still have not found a &quot;perfect&quot; chronological (or other) order for the coins the Julio Claudians issued for their (deceased) family members! </p><p>Would you arrange them according to </p><p>-the minting date (Caligula <i>before</i> his Grandfather Nero Claudius Drusus)? </p><p>-according to the lifetime of the people depicted (first Drusus, then Germanicus, and then Caligula)? </p><p>-would you place portraits of wives next to their husbands no matter when and by whom the coins were struck?</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Several of the later Sestertii mus be squeezed into the small cases of the 3rd tray (and my sole medallion does not fit at all). Would you solve this problem by partially arranging the coins by size or denomination instead of date (i.e. moving the Julio-Claudian middle bronzes into the third tray and the larger late Sestertii into the second?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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