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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientGalleonLLC, post: 2079878, member: 72483&quot;]The romans were notorious for commemorating political and other events and lives through the issuance of coins. One of the more interesting aspects of ancients is that each coin tells a typically deeper story than those of modern times.</p><p>You may want to narrow down your definition of what types of commemoratives you are looking for and define what commemorative types would interest you and what you consider a commemorative to be. Many roman coins commemorate something.</p><p>Commemorate issues could be collected by political events, battles won, architectural achievements, territories captured, emperor commemoratives such as a series of Constantine, the city commemoratives, events such as a gladiator or games issues. You could build a memorial/posthumous commemorative series of spouses or ladies struck under later emperors (like are done today with the U.S. presidential series) or commemorative death issue series of emperors. There were also early republic issues that commemorate the moneyer&#039;s families/ancestors and events. Some of those ways would be so broad an expensive though and the list is much greater then what I just wrote.</p><p>It may make more sense to collect just what you like. You could also narrow down categories by period as well, such as the early Republic or by dynasty. Personally, I find the republic issues much more interesting along with the style but it is a matter of preference.</p><p>In that price range, One of my long time early favorites has to be a T. Carisius commemorative issue of the mint showing how coins were made. In later times any of the Constantine city commemoratives (Rome/Constantinople) with the she-wolf and twins. Both are very affordable and tell a story. You should be able to get a nice VF for the carisius for $500-600, and a near flawless mint state city issue for $200 in a NGC Holders.</p><p>Accepted references such as RIC, Sydenham, Crawford, BMC, etc. can provide explanations/descriptions of many of these. If you do not have access in hand, at a library or online, you could probably do a search on wildwinds, acsearch or cng by denarius (or other) combine with the word commemorating or commemorative and numerous issues will likely come up. Be careful though, what you see for attributions and descriptions is not always right. Unfortunately I am not aware of any specific reference work on commemoratives as it would be great in detail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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