01-17-2001, 12:14 AM
Well i don't know about US coinage, ' but the 'gold' coin here gets used a lot, £1 are gold, and £2 coins (or beer tokens)are silver with a gold rim, apparently so blind people can distinguish them ?!?<br>
we lost £1 notes what 15 years ago, so no dollar bills here.<br>
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I think Octavian is recorded as having minted gold coin to pay his troops when no silver was available in the aftermath of the tyrannicide, it came up last week, an i'm just going through the notes now, so i'll look it up if I can.<br>
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Imperial coinage i'm not big on. Republican coinage was minted by lower level magistrates, they could ick an choose pretty much whatever themes they liked, though they were often, especially later uner heavy pressure from patrons to produce suitable types, the glorious deeds of their ancestors( or the made up legendsabout what someone mythical whose name sounds a bit like mine) were popular. Caesar was the first living inividual to have his hea on coinage, before that only deaduns and gods could manage it, the practice caught on quickly though, I think even Brutus was at it by the time of Phillipi.<br>
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I doubt senators and equites had much to do with coins at all, paper money did exist in the sense of bankers, and what else are slaves for. <p></p><i></i>
we lost £1 notes what 15 years ago, so no dollar bills here.<br>
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I think Octavian is recorded as having minted gold coin to pay his troops when no silver was available in the aftermath of the tyrannicide, it came up last week, an i'm just going through the notes now, so i'll look it up if I can.<br>
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Imperial coinage i'm not big on. Republican coinage was minted by lower level magistrates, they could ick an choose pretty much whatever themes they liked, though they were often, especially later uner heavy pressure from patrons to produce suitable types, the glorious deeds of their ancestors( or the made up legendsabout what someone mythical whose name sounds a bit like mine) were popular. Caesar was the first living inividual to have his hea on coinage, before that only deaduns and gods could manage it, the practice caught on quickly though, I think even Brutus was at it by the time of Phillipi.<br>
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I doubt senators and equites had much to do with coins at all, paper money did exist in the sense of bankers, and what else are slaves for. <p></p><i></i>
In the name of heaven Catiline, how long do you propose to exploit our patience..
