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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2854649, member: 75525"]I have been a coin collector and history buff for a long time, about 5 decades. I bought my first Roman Coin in the 8th grade and the second one about 10 years ago. I did not merge history and coin collecting until I decided that ancient coins were interesting and available. I spent some time deciding on a collecting area and picked the Roman Republic. I have a few RR denarii, but this collection is not like filling Whitman folders with Lincoln Cents. There is a limited number of these coins available at reasonable prices.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]678230[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While collecting coins, I started reading Roman history. I am especially fond of books with lots of pictures, but also read history text books. (The 12 Caesars by Suetonius is a favorite.) Rome was founded in 750 BC, but did not start issuing coins until about 300 BC. They started paying soldiers about 400 BC during their battle Veii. How were these soldiers paid??? </p><p><br /></p><p>Titus Livius in his History of Rome spoke on this.</p><p>Ab urbe condita 4.59</p><p>"... the senate decreed that the soldiery should receive pay from the public treasury. Previously, each man had served at his own expense."</p><p>Ab urbe condita 4.60</p><p>"... The senators were determined to uphold a measure so happily inaugurated, they were themselves the first to contribute, and <b>as coined money was not yet introduced, they carried the copper by weight in wagons</b> to the treasury, thereby drawing public attention to the fact of their contributing. After the senators had contributed most conscientiously the full amount at which they were assessed, the leading plebeians, personal friends of the nobles, began, as had been agreed, to pay in their share. When the crowd saw these men applauded by the senate and looked up to by the men of military age as patriotic citizens, they hastily rejected the proffered protection of the tribunes and vied with one another in their eagerness to contribute."</p><p> </p><p>This piece of history sent me down the path of finding what Romans did before they introduced coins. I have posted on that subject often in this forum. You can go back to some of my posts or go to my blog. The pic below was taken while packing my collection for a trip to the bank for safe keeping before Hurricane Harvey.</p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]678241[/ATTACH]</p><p>how do I know they are "real" - trusted suppliers, study the subject, and faith[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2854649, member: 75525"]I have been a coin collector and history buff for a long time, about 5 decades. I bought my first Roman Coin in the 8th grade and the second one about 10 years ago. I did not merge history and coin collecting until I decided that ancient coins were interesting and available. I spent some time deciding on a collecting area and picked the Roman Republic. I have a few RR denarii, but this collection is not like filling Whitman folders with Lincoln Cents. There is a limited number of these coins available at reasonable prices. [ATTACH=full]678230[/ATTACH] While collecting coins, I started reading Roman history. I am especially fond of books with lots of pictures, but also read history text books. (The 12 Caesars by Suetonius is a favorite.) Rome was founded in 750 BC, but did not start issuing coins until about 300 BC. They started paying soldiers about 400 BC during their battle Veii. How were these soldiers paid??? Titus Livius in his History of Rome spoke on this. Ab urbe condita 4.59 "... the senate decreed that the soldiery should receive pay from the public treasury. Previously, each man had served at his own expense." Ab urbe condita 4.60 "... The senators were determined to uphold a measure so happily inaugurated, they were themselves the first to contribute, and [B]as coined money was not yet introduced, they carried the copper by weight in wagons[/B] to the treasury, thereby drawing public attention to the fact of their contributing. After the senators had contributed most conscientiously the full amount at which they were assessed, the leading plebeians, personal friends of the nobles, began, as had been agreed, to pay in their share. When the crowd saw these men applauded by the senate and looked up to by the men of military age as patriotic citizens, they hastily rejected the proffered protection of the tribunes and vied with one another in their eagerness to contribute." This piece of history sent me down the path of finding what Romans did before they introduced coins. I have posted on that subject often in this forum. You can go back to some of my posts or go to my blog. The pic below was taken while packing my collection for a trip to the bank for safe keeping before Hurricane Harvey. [url]http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/[/url] [ATTACH=full]678241[/ATTACH] how do I know they are "real" - trusted suppliers, study the subject, and faith[/QUOTE]
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