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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 5195448, member: 98035&quot;]Well, yeah, but my point was to ponder how many people within the Imperial set would actually be possible to compile such a set for. And yeah, it&#039;s a tricky thing to define because at times it can really come down to each engraver&#039;s personal style. The person asking had no real idea what they were asking, but the way I understood it is if it&#039;s possible to collect &quot;all&quot; of an emperor&#039;s coins to the extent that one cannot see an example of any coin from that emperor and not have one too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The especially tricky thing once you get to the Flavian, Nerva-Antonine and Severan dynasties can be illustrated by one of my coins</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214454[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here we have the obverse M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM</p><p>Reverse, jupiter seated TR P XXXI IMP VIIII COS III PP</p><p><br /></p><p>There is this type minted just a few months earlier when he still had only IMP VIII - arguably a variant of the same type (not my coin - Roma)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214455[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And then there is the more common with entirely different legends, minted six years earlier (not my coin - CNG)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1214456[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXV</p><p>Rev: COS III</p><p><br /></p><p>Would this be considered the same type, or a new one? That&#039;s why I consider the more prolific emperors to be essentially impossible to &quot;complete&quot; because of rabbit holes like this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are the uber-rare ones that only have a handful of types- easy enough if you can find them all.</p><p><br /></p><p>One that really jumped to mind is Caligula - 99% of the time you see anyone post an imperial Caligula, it&#039;s a Vesta as, a SPQR OB CIVES SERVATOS sestertius, one of the handful of denarii, or more rarely a Three Sisters or ADLOCVT sestertius. There aren&#039;t many more types than those - makes me wonder if, given a couple decades and about a million bucks, it might be possible to get them all in one place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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