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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientcoinguru, post: 2349130, member: 75563&quot;]In roman times, boxing was more of a gladiatorial show than an athletic sport, and they weighed their gloves with pieces of iron and placed metal spikes around the knuckles.&nbsp; These gloves were called <i>caestus</i>.&nbsp; Virgil, an ancient poet of the Augustan period, mentions boxing in book 5 of the <i>Aeneid</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post anything that has to do with boxing…or coins with hands![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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