Ancient Coin Value Guide — Book III
Prepared by Kinzer Coins · First Edition · Last market review: September 20, 2026
Ancient Coin Value Guide Book III
The End of the Western Roman Empire
AD 364–476. A late Roman coin value guide covering Valentinian I through Romulus Augustulus, with certified/slabbed prices, current fixed-price retail, and buyer-inclusive auction evidence kept separate.
Late Western Roman Coin Values, Explained Clearly
Book III is designed to answer practical collector questions such as “What is a Romulus Augustulus coin worth?”, “What is a Valentinian III coin worth?”, and “Why do prices become so specimen-specific near the end of the Western Roman Empire?”
AD 364–476, from Valentinian I through Romulus Augustulus. Julius Nepos remains part of the historical afterword through AD 480.
Certified/slabbed market first, fixed-price raw retail second, and buyer-inclusive raw auction acquisition cost third.
For Specialist Only rulers, a manufactured range would create false precision. Exact comparable transactions are more useful.
Book III uses a September 20, 2026 research cutoff and a current-retail snapshot from the same period.
Market evidence in a fixed order
Book III preserves the methodology established in Books I and II while adding stricter controls for market confidence, repeat specimens, issuing authority, and compromised late-western material.
Certified material is treated as its own market and compared grade-for-grade where the evidence supports it.
Current asking prices show what a collector can actually buy now without waiting for an auction.
Auction acquisition cost uses hammer plus the exact mandatory premium for that sale. No blanket premium is applied.
Established, Limited, Thin, and Specialist Only labels tell the reader how much pricing precision the evidence supports.
Repeated auction appearances of one rare coin are not counted as multiple population members.
Official, Ricimer-associated, pseudo-imperial, clipped, cracked, tooled, and otherwise compromised material is separated before valuation.
Late Roman Coin Types & Value Questions
Book III spans the point where broad imperial coinage gives way to much thinner late-western markets. Denomination, mint, issuing authority, condition, and provenance become progressively more important.
Accessible late Roman bronze of Valentinian I, Valens, Gratian, Theodosius I, Honorius, Valentinian III and others.
Silver markets for rulers from Valentinian I through Constantine III, Jovinus, Priscus Attalus and other scarce western emperors.
Gold fractions become increasingly important after AD 455, including Avitus, Majorian, Johannes, Glycerius, Julius Nepos and Romulus Augustulus.
Commoner fourth-century gold gives way to specialist and trophy-level late-western issues where exact specimen history matters.
Majorian, Libius Severus and related issues require authority classification before any price comparison is meaningful.
Olybrius, Glycerius, Julius Nepos and Romulus Augustulus often belong to exact-comparable markets rather than conventional price ladders.
Twenty-seven ruler chapters
The published edition follows the western Roman market from the Valentinianic dynasty through the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476, with Julius Nepos carried through the constitutional afterword to 480.
How Book III Was Researched
Prepared by Kinzer Coins as a dated collector-market reference. Book III separates evidence classes, preserves thin and specialist-only markets, and tracks specimen identity where repeated auction appearances could otherwise distort the market.
Grade-specific slabbed observations are treated separately from raw coins.
Active fixed-price asking prices are used to show what collectors can buy now.
Hammer plus the mandatory premium for each exact sale; no universal premium is applied.
Foreign results retain original currency and use historical FX only when a common-currency comparison is needed.
Weight, flan shape, dies, marks, provenance and prior images are used to recognize the same physical coin.
No median is better than a misleading median when a ruler is represented by only a handful of meaningful comparables.
Market evidence is a dated snapshot, not a guarantee of future value. Ancient coins remain specimen-specific.
Book III FAQ
There is no ordinary range. Recent exact comparables include a Milan tremissis at $65,000 hammer, a certified Choice XF tremissis at $66,000 sold-for, Milan solidi at CHF 85,000 and CHF 190,000, and a Rome solidus at £95,000.
His market is much broader. Bronze can remain accessible, while a recent four-coin certified solidus sample produced a $2,340 buyer-inclusive median.
When the market is too rare or specimen-specific, exact comparables are more accurate than a synthetic minimum-to-maximum range.
Certification narrows comparison by grade and attribution. Raw and slabbed coins therefore remain separate evidence classes.
Official imperial, Ricimer-associated, attribution-sensitive and pseudo-imperial pieces can carry very different markets even when they bear the same ruler’s name.
Buyer-inclusive acquisition cost uses hammer plus the mandatory buyer premium for that exact sale. No blanket percentage is applied across auction houses.
Continue the Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide
Book I covers the Crisis of the Third Century. Book II covers the Tetrarchy and Constantinian dynasty. Book III follows the Western Roman Empire through AD 476.
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