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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4830773, member: 85693&quot;]That is a really cool counting board for chucking chukrams.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Victor and RC note, Roman coins showed these coin-counters fairly regularly, usually with the goddess Liberalitas (sometimes called an abacus in descriptions, but I think this is an error).</p><p><br /></p><p>From a FORVM listing:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Liberalitas coin types attest to occasions when the emperor has displayed his generosity towards the people by a distribution to them of money, provisions, or both. The first mention of Liberalitas was on coins of Hadrian. It was a type frequently repeated by the succeeding emperors. Indeed these instances of imperial generosity are more carefully recorded on coins than they are by history. Liberality is personified by the image of a woman, holding in one hand a counting board, or square tablet with a handle on which are cut a certain number of holes. These boards were used to quickly count the proper number of coins or other items for distribution to each person. In the other hand she holds a cornucopia, to indicate the prosperity of the state and the abundance of wheat contained in the public graineries.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?param=93305q00.jpg&amp;vpar=3106&amp;zpg=106523&amp;fld=https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?param=93305q00.jpg&amp;vpar=3106&amp;zpg=106523&amp;fld=https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?param=93305q00.jpg&amp;vpar=3106&amp;zpg=106523&amp;fld=https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a sestertius - you can just make out the coins/holes in the coin-counter:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1168387[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Severus Alexander <b>Æ Sestertius </b></b></p><p><b>(229 A.D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG, laureate head right, draped left shoulder / LIBERALITAS AVGVSTI IIII, S-C, Liberalitas standing left, holding counter and cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC 575; Cohen 136; BMC 561.</p><p>(14.33 grams / 28 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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