Article on Pompeii from the Sci-Fi Web Site io9

[Nathan Ross]

The next sentence below reads;

"That's asses as in the As, a bronze coin used in Rome. So Attike must have been one expensive lady."

The page has been changed since my last post then! It previously read (I'm fairly sure) 'that's asses as in donkeys, an expensive animal in ancient times' or something to that effect... either somebody informed them of the error and they corrected it, or I suffered a strange hallucination earlier today... hock: