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Shop sign for money changer
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09-19-2010, 04:09 AM
Anyone know what a shop sign for a Roman Money changer might look like?
John Kaler MSG, USA Retired
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09-19-2010, 04:58 AM
I think the usual way small money changers/bankers worked in the ancient world was a strongbox of coins and a table in a shaded part of the forum or agora. Passers by could recognize them as bankers without needing a sign. Remember the bit in the New Testament about Jesus and the moneylenders in the colonnades of the Temple? A moneylender might do some business out of a shop or their home though. ARGENTARIUS and NUMMULARIUS are the Latin words for a banker or moneychanger, so one might just pay for a painter to write "MARCUS FIRMICUS NUMMULARIUS" on a convenient wall.
If you're lucky, there is an appropriate sign in Pompeii. But I don't have the right references on hand.
Nullis in verba
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09-19-2010, 04:28 PM
Here is my draft sign for the Money Changer
It is just a list of the roman symbols from the As to the Denarius. Comments?
John Kaler MSG, USA Retired
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