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Roman coins of all ancient coins that has experienced the longest and widest geographical distribution, for several centuries until it became the common currency of Western and Mediterranean world. After initial rough bronze based on the weight and use of Greek coinage, it was constituted in the late third century BC. AD according to a monetary system based on bimetallism silver and bronze. At the beginning of the Early Empire under Augustus adds gold money, creating a three metals that is stable for nearly two centuries and a half. The military and economic crisis of the third century and the inflationary spiral that accompanies see the collapse of silver coins and bronze. In the fourth century, Diocletian reform that attempts to revalue the currencies of silver and bronze fails to contain inflation, while that of Constantine I succeeds in establishing a monetary system dominated by the solidus stabilized at 4.5 grams of gold and not pegged to other currencies that devalue. Then knows the solidus exceptional stability in the Eastern Empire until the eleventh century. Aureus, aurei, quinary gold Cistophores, Quninaire money, Denier, Antoninien, Sesterce, Dupondius, As, Semis, Quadrans, Follis