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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3932798, member: 85693&quot;]Sallent, I am embarrassed to say I haven&#039;t watched the whole thing since c. 1977!&nbsp; We have it queued up here at home on the Acorn Channel.&nbsp; I really need to get on that! </p><p><br /></p><p>I have watched HBO&#039;s <i>Rome</i> a couple times recently - I highly recommend it, although the tavern gambling scene uses prop denarii that are a bit unconvincing.&nbsp; The movies can&#039;t seem to deal with how small a real denarius is, so they substitute these things that look like tetradrachms.&nbsp; See 0:32 on the clip below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]VUjaHP4GEqU[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, in one scene a physician is being paid with (I assume) denarii.&nbsp; He glances at them and hands one back - &quot;This is brass,&quot; he says - it is at 2:00 in the YouTube clip below. </p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]Ro9tn-wN9-0[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>No emperors in <i>Rome</i> except young Octavian on the brink of Empire - but there is a lot of interaction between the Triumvirs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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