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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2211818, member: 44316&quot;]Doug is right (as usual). Read up a bit on the history and find coins that you are pleased to own because they relate to something you know. Most experienced collectors have areas they collect, but the concept of a complete &quot;set&quot; is not big in ancients like it is in US coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Twelve Caesars&quot; is only one book written in antiquity. There are others. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you want a set that corresponds to a book written in antiquity, you could get &quot;Lives of the Later Caesars&quot; with a controversial authorship (possibly in the fourth century). It covers 117-284 with a gap from 244-253. Those coins will be good-looking and not expensive. The book is cheap in Penguin Classics.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You could get &quot;The Later Roman Empire&quot; by Ammianus Marcellinus (covering 25 years 354-378) in Penguin Classics. The coins of this period are very available and inexpensive. </p><p><br /></p><p>You could get &quot;Fourteen Byzantine Rulers&quot; by Michael Psellus, who lived 1018-1096. The book is inexpensive in Penguin Classics.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remind you that public libraries and university libraries may well have relevant books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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