Ancient Coins: Late Roman Bronzes

[@Numischannel]

Welcome back Leo! Excellent general introduction to the everyday coinage of the Late Roman Empire!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Thanks! Really looking forward to your continuations of Constantine's coinage, Licinius, etc!

[@xanderbailey9106]

Funny I was just thinking I wonder if Classical Nusmistists has a video on bronze Roman coins. And here we are!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

There's more to come! I've recently finished assembling a decent Tetrarchy set, so a video entirely dedicated on the Tetrarchy and the very earliest LRBs is also in order.

[@peterwilson7532]

I found these coins go be the best route into ancient coin collecting. They are so cheap and plentiful, yet technologically very well made. One gains a lot of history for a small outlay. Fabulous. Another great, interesting video.

[@AncientNumis]

Another awesome video Leo! I started with LRBs (in fact my first ancient was a super low grade one) and I learnt a lot researching and identifying these at the beginning - while they're affordable they can still sure be interesting. Looking through all the low grade ones also got me to appreciate higher quality coins which I think is pretty important.

[@CleverMonster101]

I’ve been looking forward to a new video! Thank you for always teaching me so much.

[@isabelcrb]

Fascinating little coins! I like to shuffle around trays at coin shows looking for emperors I dont yet have or interesting reverses. thank you for yet another useful video!!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

I love coin shows too! These pick trays have rendered me quite a few coins I still have in my collection :)

[@Michael-Philip]

I love coins, I learn alot about History, Art, Economics, and Metals.

[@Yakitak]

Nice, basic and easy to follow overview of the vast array of late Roman bronzes

[@guillaumedarras]

very good work and coins ! I work in a numismatic museum and we study a lot of this type of coins

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Thank you! Great to know I have some audience in the academic world as well.

[@guillaumedarras]

@@ClassicalNumismatics a short movie of the museum where i work kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6LLdGefqNCHpK8

[@davecbm6062]

Thank you. Very informative and has really invigorated me into sort out my collection.

[@tedlawrence4189]

I first started collecting Roman in 1962. I was 13 at that time. Since then there have been many ancients discovered. A large % of them are the later Roman Bronzes. Even with all of the new supply, high grade specimens, are much more expensive than back when. This means that collecting of these mostly common coins,in high grade, is quite popular.

[@asheland_numismatics]

Another excellent video! 👍

[@daltonsherrod1573]

Love my late Roman bronzes!

[@jonathanlewis8018]

I have just started my Roman coin collection with a late AE2 follis of Gratian and I am building it up fast

[@tavuzzipust7887]

Late Roman bronzes are very plentyful. Yet some are extremely hard to find. It took me some thirty years to find AE1s of Valens and Valentinian for Aquileiia, even the Julian II bull for Aquileia is very hard to find.

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Thats true! I was wondering if I should go for a Siliqua of Julian II, of the unbearded type, or go for the AE1 Bull, it looks like Ill go for the siliqua since the Bull coin is so hard to find and expensive!

[@tavuzzipust7887]

@@ClassicalNumismatics The Julian Bull is not hard to find for Constantiniple or Antioch. And it's a fascinating piece, with no general agreement as to what it means.

[@PhantomHarlock78]

Old bronze and silver coins were used worthing more than the new ones with less metal but the same nominal value? For example, something costing 10 with old coins but 30 if you are paying with new coins.

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Coins were either withdrawn and reissued, with the old standard being phased out completely, or in some situations the might still be accepted in circulation with a different value. Sometimes they required coins to be countermarked as to be revalidated on the new standard. It really varies on the region, the time, the country doing it.

[@gordongrant408]

Great stuff Leo.😄

[@janiskar7892]

Great video 👍👍👍👍👍

[@nathanielscreativecollecti6392]

Do you have a video detailing the crisis of the third century? That would be fascinating.

[@alvarofranco7938]

Hi Leo, does the term "late roman coinage or empire" until 476 include the Eastern part of the Empire as well or is it just until Theodosius for both Eastern and Western and only Western until 476? Thanks!!

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

If we want to be academically strict, yes, we should include the Eastern Empire. Late Roman Coinage only truly ended in 494, after the fall of the West, as Anastasius reformed the monetary standard which used to be in effect on both halves of the Empire. That means that any small nummi, silver pieces or solidi (and its fractions) struck between the fall of the West in 476 and 494 can still be considered "Late Roman Coinage". When we get to the reformed Folles with value marks on the reverse, now we are talking about "Byzantine Coinage"

[@alvarofranco7938]

@@ClassicalNumismatics Many thanks!!

[@sebastianmaharg]

Excellent!

[@AndrejBk]

very nice Galerius nummus

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Fell in love when I saw it. Instant buy

[@ahmadsalehsaifullah2619]

Great coins ! What gears do you use to shoot such videos ?

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

My smartphone, a 3-years old Huawei, a small tripod, some red velvet trays for the coins as a background and plenty of sunlight, its pretty simple!

[@arthur-yq4ic]

are the late roman soldiers payed in good silver or debased ones ?

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Depends on the time period, and of course your rank. If you were a foot soldier, you were most likely paid in bronze, billon, maybe silver every now and then. If you were an official, definitely silver and gold.

[@scotmhead]

You can easily see the decline of aesthetic from the early imperial era to the LRB times where every emperor looked the same on coins. When we move to the Byzantine era, all personality had bee removed from the coins.

[@arthur-yq4ic]

10:00 galerius captured 2 dwarfes

[@johnnail532]

I’ve bought a few lots for cleaning- mostly lower to mid grade A4. Got a few decent ones but seems like most of them come covered green when you get the dirt off- not sure if it’s bronze disease- soaking them in distilled water and seeing if they are salvageable. As my knowledge grows I will likely launch into better coins. I would welcome input on best sources for good authentic coins and who would perhaps be best avoided from peoples personal experiences

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

I've got a couple of videos on how to purchase ancient coins online and how to avoid fakes on my beginners playlist. I recommend you head to my channel page and have a look, there are tons of tutorials for beginners that should serve you well.

[@kamradikk0o0]

👍👍👍

[@lospervanjos7216]

Hello Sir, Can you tell me a little bit more about a very small roman bronze coin, about 10 mm wide. Most similar to Procopius usurper if I look the back side of the coin. Front side is not that visible. Only see a bit shade of head. Tnx

[@colbystearns5238]

7:46, it seems rather appropriate for that reverse of Jove to look that scrawny and sad knowing he and his fellow gods are about to be overtaken by a certain Jewish carpenter from Nazareth very shortly (this coin coincidentally was minted a year before the famous Edict of Milan). This is me speculating of course but it appears like there was no real passion left for the traditional pantheon in the early 4th century and people only continued minting imagery of the old gods out of sheer inertia, practically making it only a matter of time before Christianity proved to be a more exciting option for everyone.

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Excellent interpretation, thank you!

[@FeUpA123456789]

Good morning friend I have a coin that I have some doubts I would like if you could help me? and if you have an email where you can send the photo of the coins. thanks

[@ClassicalNumismatics]

Sadly I cant do personal consultations, I just dont have the time. I have plenty of videos teaching how to identify coins on my channel, check my older videos, this should help.

[@marthaibarra8955]

Hoy mucho one this?

[@remyparaskovia5499]

I have one of this , Is For sell But don't know it's price

[@d.r.h.5008]

Another great video! 👍