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Title page of the 1645 edition of Icones Imperatorum Romanorum.The figures depicted are Constantine the Great (left), Julius Caesar (center) and Rudolf I (right).. Icones Imperatorum Romanorum ('Images of the Emperors of the Romans'), originally published under the title Vivae omnium fere imperatorum imagines, is a 1557 originally Latin-language numismatic and historical work by the Dutch ...
The triumviri monetalis supervised the issuing of Roman coins. Their number was increased by Julius Caesar to four, but again reduced by Augustus. As they acted for the senate they only coined copper money under the empire, the gold and silver coinage being under the exclusive control of the emperor. [4]
The coin was struck to celebrate the March 15, 44 BC, assassination of Julius Caesar. It features a bust of Brutus, who was one of the assassins, on the obverse while the reverse features a pileus cap between two daggers. The coin was minted in both silver and gold. Approximately 100 of the silver coins are known to exist, but only three of the ...
On 'Pawn Stars,' a man brought in a rare Roman coin with the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar on it, who was also known as Caligula. Rick's first question was obvious: "Is it real?" The expert, Mark ...
Roman currency names survive today in many countries via the Carolingian monetary system, such as the dinar (from the denarius coin), the British pound (a translation of the Roman libra, a unit of weight), the peso (also a translation of libra), and the words for the general concept of money in the Iberian Romance languages (e.g. Spanish dinero ...
This Ancient Roman Bullet Has Caesar’s Name On It Moralejo Ordax et al The study of a 2,000-year-old bullet found in Spain gives clues to the final days of the Roman civil war.
During the Roman Republic, moneyers were called tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo, literally "three men for casting (and) striking bronze, silver (and) gold (coins)". This was a board of the college of the vigintiviri , or Board of twenty (later briefly the Board of twenty-six), vigintisexviri .
Fragments of the armor were kept in National Museums Scotland’s collection for over a century, experts said.