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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8264261, member: 128351"]The 5th c. AD is a difficult century from a numismatic point of view. They minted gold solidi and tiny AE4, AKA "minimi". I am convinced the 4th c. larger AE coins from Constantius II to Honorius and Arcadius were still circulating, because they had been minted on an industrial scale and flooded the Mediterranean world. In the Near East, for example, archaeological sites are full of 4th c. AE coins in all grades, some lost soon after minting (in the 4th c.), some others much worn, which means they circulated a long time. 5th c. coins are less numerous, and they are always minute AE4 which are not easy to identify: when corroded, their identification is almost desperate and it is impossible to tell just from their size if they are 5th c. minimi because minute coins of the same module had been minted in the Near-East in the 2nd c. AD. Some 5th c. AD coins: [ATTACH=full]1457945[/ATTACH] Arcadius (Antioch, 401-403) [ATTACH=full]1457940[/ATTACH] Aelia Eudoxia AE3, 401-403 [ATTACH=full]1457946[/ATTACH]Arcadius AE4 (Alexandria, 404-406) [ATTACH=full]1457938[/ATTACH]  Honorius (Antioch) 406-408 [ATTACH=full]1457941[/ATTACH] Theodosius II, solidus (Constantinople) [ATTACH=full]1457942[/ATTACH] Marcianus, AE4 (Constantinople) 450-457 [ATTACH=full]1457943[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1457944[/ATTACH] Leo I, AE4 (Constantinople) 457-462 [ATTACH=full]1457947[/ATTACH] Anastasius, AE4 or nummus, 491-498[/QUOTE]