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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1154568, member: 19409&quot;]Well you need to keep in mind that some emperors are extremely hard to get (i.e. Gordian I and II, Romulus Augustulus, Constantine XI), and some Byzantine emperors didn&#039;t issue any surviving coins at all.&nbsp; Denominations were also not consistent throughout the millennia.&nbsp; probably the longest lasting one was the Byzantine Follis, which lasted in some form from the coinage reform of Anastasius (498) until the coinage reform of Alexios I (1081–1118), but that&#039;s not going to get you any emperors that most people have heard of (with the possible exception of Justinian), and there was a period of &quot;anonymous folles,&quot; which contained an image of Jesus on one side rather than an imperial portrait and didn&#039;t even have the name of the emperor on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can, however, stick with certain other denominations for reasonably long periods.&nbsp; The denarius is generally one of the easier coins to get for everyone from Julius Caesar (assuming you&#039;re counting him as an emperor) to around the reign of Gordian III (238-244), and I&#039;m pretty sure that at least Otho has no surviving coins in any base metal denomination.&nbsp; Around the period of Gordian III, the antoninianus, a silver coin worth 2 denarii, became far more common (in fact, denarii ceased to be produced as regular issues around this time), and that is the most common type of coin until Diocletian&#039;s reform in 293.&nbsp; They honestly look close enough to denarii, at least early on before debasement made them virtually copper, that they wouldn&#039;t really stick out too much in a case that&#039;s otherwise filled with denarii.&nbsp; After that, it gets a bit complicated.&nbsp; We can tell the difference between the denominations of Diocletian&#039;s reform, but this is followed by over a century of constant revaluing, debasement, shrinking, and reissuing of larger coins.&nbsp; It&#039;s honestly rather hard to tell what&#039;s a new denomination and what&#039;s a revised older one most of the time.&nbsp; However, you should still be able to get bronze coins of similar sizes for most 4th century emperors, even if they&#039;re not technically the same denomination, so it would at least look consistent in a case.&nbsp; 5th century bronzes were generally very tiny and poorly made, and for some emperors, these bronzes are actually rarer than their gold coins if I recall correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been ignoring gold this whole time, since that is by far the most expensive route to go (and I don&#039;t think gold exists for some of the last Byzantine emperors, though I&#039;m not 100% on that), but gold denominations did tend to last a bit longer than others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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