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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 5246135, member: 44316&quot;]Some collectors like to work on sets, defined to be some list of types meeting some criterion, such as &quot;the twelve Caesars.&quot;&nbsp; If the definition is too encompassing, the set may be too large and then it lacks interest. Collecting all types of Antoninus Pius would be daunting, with over 1400 RIC numbers during his reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is one thing to like about late Roman AE from Valentinian and later. Each emperor has a limited number of types and you can hope to get most of them, although most rulers have a few rarities to keep you from easily completing his type set. To give you a feeling for how complicated it would be to collect the AE types of any late Roman ruler, Valentinian through Theodosius II, you can look here:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/typesets.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/typesets.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/typesets.html</a></p><p>You could print a copy of the table of types and check them off as you got them. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is one of Gratian&#039;s types:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218429[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gratian</p><p>GLORIA ROMANORVM, <b>galley</b></p><p><b>AE2</b>. 23-22 mm. 4.49 grams.</p><p>RIC Nicomedia 25a2</p><p><br /></p><p>That whole site:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/index.html</a></p><p>has many resources for collectors. Look around and you will find lots of helpful pages. For example:</p><p><br /></p><p>How are the coins assigned dates?&nbsp; See here:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/timeline.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/timeline.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/timeline.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I love late Roman AE![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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