This is my humble collection. The majority of the coins are from uncleaned lots. As a result, some of the coins are not pretty, at least not in the conventional sense. I can find something to admire in every coin. The detail of an eye, the folds of a robe, lettering that is at once both familiar and strange. Every coin, even the unattributable ones have something to offer me. It’s still fascinates me to hold a coin, no matter the condition, that is 1500+ years old. Who made it, who earned it and how? What did they spend it on? Its brief trip back in time all in the palm of my hand. In this virtual collection I will post any coin I can attribute to an Emperor.

I’m not a very disciplined collector. Once it was time to expand from the late Roman coins found in uncleaned lots, I (like most new collectors I would wager) tried to get one coin of every Roman Emperor that minted one. Along the way I found I was fascinated by the Flavians, became interested in Roman Egypt coins, and recently Ptolemaic coinage has caught my interest. I also aquired coins just because I liked the way they looked. I know conventional wisdom is to focus, but I find I’m happier visiting the various niches in time, staying for a while and moving on to the next one.

You will find a few typos and other strange things in the descriptions. I’m correcting the mistakes as I find them. I’m sure experts with a keener eye, and more experience will find some attribution errors, or can help complete an attribution. If you can help, please e-mail me. There are also e-mail links on every page of the collection to make reporting errors easier. I am a work in progress who can benefit from the knowledge of others.

I have tried to organize these pages as logically as possible. Some areas are "lumped" together, simply because they are out of my focus, and there aren't many coins to show. Coins in the Roman Imperial section are grouped by emperor, and then each emperors page is organized by RIC number.

Thanks and enjoy your visit

Kevin