I do. I have a variety of Roman coins dating back to Principate up to the Byzantine era. I tend to look for coins for Emperors that I find interesting, such as Trajan, Constantine, Aurelian and others. It looks like most of the coins were Folles, which were a low denomination coin. These coins were pretty much worthless starting in the late 270's until the Empire stabilized in the 330's. The Romans devalued the coins so much and inflation became so bad that the Roman government abandoned using coinage and reverted to a payment in kind system for taxes. (I believe Gold Currency was not affected as much but was only held by the very wealthy) Constantine introduced a new gold coin (solidus) at the time, which became the standard around Europe until the 1100's or so.
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I do. I have a variety of Roman coins dating back to Principate up to the Byzantine era. I tend to look for coins for Emperors that I find interesting, such as Trajan, Constantine, Aurelian and others. It looks like most of the coins were Folles, which were a low denomination coin. These coins were pretty much worthless starting in the late 270's until the Empire stabilized in the 330's. The Romans devalued the coins so much and inflation became so bad that the Roman government abandoned using coinage and reverted to a payment in kind system for taxes. (I believe Gold Currency was not affected as much but was only held by the very wealthy) Constantine introduced a new gold coin (solidus) at the time, which became the standard around Europe until the 1100's or so.