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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3308809, member: 85693"]Niall Ferguson is, according to the jacket copy, "one of Britain's most renowned historians." So I started reading his book <i>The Ascent of Money </i>and came across this:</p><p><br /></p><p>"By Roman times, coins were produced in three different metals: the aureus (gold), the denarius (silver) and the sestertius (bronze), ranked in that order according to the relative scarcity of the metals in question, but all bearing the head of the reigning emperor on one side, and the legendary figures of Romulus and Remus on the other." (page 24)</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is mainly concerned with money in modern (post-Medieval) times, but you'd think "one of Britain's most renowned historians" could've borrowed a coin guy from the British Museum for some help with the Roman stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>Orichalcum, the forgotten metal...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3308809, member: 85693"]Niall Ferguson is, according to the jacket copy, "one of Britain's most renowned historians." So I started reading his book [I]The Ascent of Money [/I]and came across this: "By Roman times, coins were produced in three different metals: the aureus (gold), the denarius (silver) and the sestertius (bronze), ranked in that order according to the relative scarcity of the metals in question, but all bearing the head of the reigning emperor on one side, and the legendary figures of Romulus and Remus on the other." (page 24) The book is mainly concerned with money in modern (post-Medieval) times, but you'd think "one of Britain's most renowned historians" could've borrowed a coin guy from the British Museum for some help with the Roman stuff. Orichalcum, the forgotten metal...[/QUOTE]
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