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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1435815, member: 26302&quot;]Yeah, I would call all pieces like Mr. Brooklyn&#039;s private issue tokens. I would not call it a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the subject of the article, though, there was not the huge taboo back then. The point really is that the Romans were a very moral people, they just had different morality than we. Two grown men together was not looked upon favorably for an emperor or the like, but they weren&#039;t about to lynched over it either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Judeo-Christian morals have so thoroughly pervaded our consciouness and thoughts that its hard to really understand a different moral code such as the Romans had. Neither theirs nor ours is &quot;right&quot;, they are just different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding spintrae in general, there is a big difference between private and public ones. Think of the difference between US mint medals and private medals today. There is a lot more someone privately can put on a medal than what the US mint will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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