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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2783752, member: 44132&quot;]From an article on: <a href="http://www.monete-romane.com/roman_coins/moneyers.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.monete-romane.com/roman_coins/moneyers.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.monete-romane.com/roman_coins/moneyers.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the last part of the Roman Republic coins became a mean of communication, thanks to the inscrptions and the images displayed on it. The moneyers, who had the responsibility to define the characteristics of the coins, began to use coins as tool of politic propaganda, celebrating the origin of their family (gens) at the beginning, then using historical references more and more close to themselves. The moneyers made part of the Vigintisexviris, that was a college of minor magistrates of the Roman Republic. The name means Twenty-six men.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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