Roman

Roman coinage records the empire in portraits, from Julius Caesar, the first living Roman to place his name on gold, to the last emperors of the West. The gold aureus of the first two centuries AD carried finely engraved portraits of rulers such as Caligula, Nero, Vespasian and Marcus Aurelius. Constantine’s reform introduced the lighter gold solidus, struck for the rest of the empire’s history.

Our Roman collection focuses on gold: aurei of the Julio-Claudian, Flavian and Antonine emperors, and solidi of the fourth and fifth centuries from mints including Rome, Constantinople and Antioch. Every coin is guaranteed authentic, with grading and references in each description.