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>Republican Era Denarii have many different themes and motifs and are the highest purity the Romans could muster
>Imperial Denarii (and Antoninianii) were just repetitive, increasingly generic portraits of the Emperor with diminishing Silver content
I've heard that the beginning of the Roman Empire was the end of Classical History and the coins really show it, the difference is night and day.
We'll probably see this sort of change in Western coinage (if we aren't already) sometime in the next few decades.