ANCIENT HISTORY WITHIN REACH
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Constantine the Great Bronze — c. AD 300, NGC
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Founding of Constantinople Bronze — NGC, AD 330–340
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Probus Bronze — Restorer After the Crisis, AD 276–282
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Saint Helena Bronze — Mother of Constantine, NGC, AD 324–330
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First Ancient Coins Starter Pack — Three Worlds
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Sons of Constantine Starter Pack — Four Heirs
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Crisis of the Third Century Starter Pack, NGC
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Fall of Rome Starter Pack — The Last Emperors
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Check out Kinzer Coins on the Podcast Circuit
Check out some of the podcasts that Kinzer Coins has stumbled their way onto.
The Historical Importance of Currency
Dean joins William Ramsey to unpack why currency matters, built around two authentic 1st-century bronze coins from the era of Paul's trials before Rome. A look at how everyday coins doubled as records of power, faith, and the officials who shaped the Book of Acts.
Watch on YouTubeBiblical Coins and Lost History
Dean explores how coins preserved imperial propaganda, religious symbolism, and biblical mysteries, from the death of Julius Caesar to the time of Jesus, some of history's most reliable eyewitnesses.
Watch on YouTubeAncient Coins: The First Mass Communication
Dean and Dani dig into ancient coins as the original mass communication, how rulers broadcast power and belief through coinage, and how those instincts still shape the money we use now.
Watch on YouTubeWhat Rome Knew: Ancient Coins & Modern Culture Wars
Dean connects ancient Rome to the present: what Rome understood about power, messaging, and money, and how today's culture wars echo the empire stamped into its coins.
Watch on YouTubeEp. 42: Coins of the Bible and the Early Roman Empire
Host Tony Gryckiewicz interviews Dean on his path from the military into full-time numismatics, then the coins themselves: Judaean and biblical issues, Constantine the Great, Gallienus, and Commodus.
Watch on YouTubeWhat Can Sports Card Collectors Learn From Coin Collectors?
Dean compares coins and sports cards on market psychology, grading, restoration, alterations, and rarity, and what card investors can take from centuries of coin-market history.
Watch on YouTubeAncient Coins w/ Dean Kinzer
A history-first conversation on how money evolved in ancient Europe, how coins were produced, and how the rise and fall of Rome can be read in the output of its mints.
Watch on YouTubeCoins Show What's Happening to Us Right Now
Dean walks through the economics of ancient money: currency clipping, mint fraud, Diocletian's price controls, and Constantine's gold solidus, drawing parallels between ancient collapse and today.
Watch on YouTubeWhy Ancient Coins May Be the Most Overlooked Collectible
Dean argues ancient coins are undervalued next to modern sports cards, touching on Caesar's dictator-for-life coin, Constantine, NGC grading, and the pull of holding a 2,000-year-old artifact.
Watch on YouTubeWhy Ancient Coins Are More Powerful Than You Think
Dean explains why ancient coins were the original mass-communication network for propaganda, how emperors built authority through coin design, and why you should never clean an ancient coin.
Watch on YouTubeThe Debasement That Destroyed Rome (It's Happening Again)
Dean traces how Rome's denarius collapsed through debasement, from 98% pure silver under Augustus to almost nothing in the 3rd-century crisis, and how coins doubled as political propaganda.
Watch on YouTubeHold the Past in Your Palm
Dean joins Beyond The Known to talk about holding the past in your palm, how a single ancient coin turns history into something you can physically own, and what pulls people into the hobby.
Watch on YouTubeMake Money by Selling Ancient Coins
Dean breaks down the business side of numismatics: how to buy, authenticate, trade, and profit selling ancient Greek and Roman coins online and at coin shows.
Watch on YouTubeWhy Ancient Coins Are the Next Big Investment Trend
Dean makes the case for ancient coins as an emerging investment, covering the oldest coins in history, NGC slabbed vs raw, counterfeits, and why the category is still undervalued.
Watch on YouTubeDean Kinzer Coin Conversation
Dean sits down with TheCoinGeek for a wide-ranging conversation on ancient coins, how he built Kinzer Coins, and what draws collectors to owning a genuine piece of the ancient world.
Watch on YouTubeHow I Built a Profitable Ancient Coin Collecting Side Hustle
Dean breaks down building an $80k+/year business around ancient coins: low-risk sourcing, beginner-friendly pieces like Constantine bronzes and Athenian Owls, earning trust in an obscure niche, and monetizing through VCoins, Shopify, and paid early access.
Watch on YouTubeWhy Ancient Coins Should Be Your Best Investment
Dean makes the investment case with Kerry Lutz, tracing coinage back to its origins and covering the evolution of money, counterfeiting, the absence of a formal grading system, and why ancients remain overlooked by American collectors.
Watch on YouTubeBonus XV: Coins and the Roman World (feat. Dean Kinzer)
Dean joins Autocrat for a bonus episode on coins and the Roman world, how currency carried imperial power and messaging, and what the coins reveal about the emperors who struck them.
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