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Message:: [QUOTE="Gao, post: 1267629, member: 19409"]If you want someone that people have heard of on your coin, you might want to check out the Alexandrian tetradrachms of Nero (just look up "Nero tetradrachm" on VCoins and make sure you match all words).  However, I think that these were only around 25% silver in this period, and you're not going to find anything in as nice shape as coins of someone like Gordian III in that price range. In addition to the denarius and drachm, another kind of coin you might be interested in is the antoninianus.  It was a coin worth 2 denarii (though usually only had the silver content of 1.5 or so), and they were generally a little bigger than a denarius.  Unfortunately, if you really want silver, searching for "antoninianus" isn't going to be that useful.  That coin was debased at least a little bit by just about every emperor that minted it, to the point where they needed to give it a silver wash during the reign of Galienus to make it actually look silver, and the antoniniani from that period onwards are more common than the ones that have a decent amount of silver.  For antoniniani with a high enough silver content to look silver, the most affordable emperors are Gordian III, Philip the Arab, and Trajan Decius, so you might want to check out their coins.[/QUOTE]