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Prepared by Kinzer Coins · First Edition · Market review: September 2026
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.
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?”
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.
Current Book III website reference synchronized to the live Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide methodology. Certified / Slabbed, Current Fixed-Price Retail, and Raw Auction evidence remain separate. Guide Orientation is editorial and is not presented as transaction evidence.
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.
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.
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.
Market evidence is a dated snapshot, not a guarantee of future value. Ancient coins remain specimen-specific.
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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27 BC–AD 68. Book IV is now published with 14 ruler and family-member chapters and type-specific Julio-Claudian pricing.
Read Book IVAD 68–96. Book V is now published, covering the Year of the Four Emperors and the Flavian dynasty through Domitian.
Read Book VGet notified when Book V: The Flavian Dynasty is published.
The Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide reports factual market observations and Kinzer Coins' own analysis. It does not claim ownership of third-party auction facts, dealer facts, catalog text, photographs, databases, trademarks, or grading systems.
This is a dated educational market reference, not a formal appraisal, insurance valuation, investment recommendation, or guarantee of future value. If a rights holder believes a credit, source attribution, or image-use statement is incorrect, Kinzer Coins will review and correct or replace it.
This page is part of the Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide, originally researched, compiled, written, and published by Kinzer Coins. The official source for this guide and future revisions is KinzerCoins.com.
© 2026 Kinzer Coins. All rights reserved. Original research, commentary, selection and arrangement of market evidence, tables, graphics, and presentation may not be reproduced or republished in substantial part without permission. Individual historical facts and public auction results remain facts; Kinzer Coins claims copyright only in its original authorship, compilation, analysis, and presentation.
Research snapshots are dated within each volume so readers can distinguish the original publication record from later revisions.
Third-party sources and marks. Auction-house, dealer, grading-service, marketplace, database, museum, and reference names are used only to identify sources or market context. Kinzer Coins is not affiliated with or endorsed by those third parties unless expressly stated. Except for material specifically licensed and credited, this guide does not reproduce third-party photographs, catalog prose, database exports, or proprietary tables. Public sale facts are used as factual market observations and are independently selected, organized, and analyzed by Kinzer Coins. Aggregators and marketplaces are used for discovery and cross-checking rather than as datasets to republish.
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Independent source-use notice. Kinzer Coins is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any auction house, grading service, dealer marketplace, archive, or research platform named in this guide. Names are used only to identify factual market observations or their originating venues. The guide does not reproduce proprietary auction-catalog prose, database exports, marketplace layouts, or unlicensed commercial images. Search services and marketplaces are used only for discovery and cross-checking; wherever practicable, auction observations are verified to the originating auction house and retail observations to the originating dealer. No automated scraping or harvesting is used for publication datasets.
Market-use notice. This is a dated collector-market reference, not an appraisal, investment recommendation, insurance valuation, dealer bid sheet, or guarantee of future price. Ancient coins are specimen-specific and actual results can differ materially.
