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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5252491, member: 19463&quot;]I find one of the things about late Roman coins is the way they allow individual interpretation of what to collect.&nbsp; Compared to earlier coins there are relatively few major types so you can get one Falling Horseman, one Hut, one galley etc. and cover 90% of the types (yes, there are some great rarities that you will never see but we are talking about a good overview rather than a complete set).&nbsp; On the other hand, you can replace that single Falling Horseman with over 2200 variations of mint and legend details not to mention as many minor variations of devices if you look closely at things like theshields or attire of the figures.&nbsp; I know much less about RIC IX than about RIC VIII but one early impression is how the authors avoided having a book as thick as VIII by lumping many variation in field letters together under a single number explained with charts.&nbsp; We can choose if the coin below is a one and only coin of Valentinian or we can consider the hair dragging reverse or we can notice the mint and officina.&nbsp; A few of us will want to look at the three letter/symbols in the field and decipher the or assemble a collection of them all.&nbsp; All specialties allow a similar variation of how we define same and different.&nbsp; Late Romans have many variations to offer the person who looks closely.&nbsp; I do not find Late Romans as interesting today as I did a few years ago.&nbsp; That is not a problem with the coins but merely a choice I have had to make.&nbsp; You can&#039;t collect them all ----- or can you?[ATTACH=full]1218919[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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