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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7903109, member: 115909"]Gaius Suetonius was a 1st century Roman historian whose most well known work was “De Vita Caesarum” commonly referred to as “The Twelve Caesars”.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Today I was re-reading his biography of Augustus and Suetonius says the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Festivals and holidays he usually celebrated very expensively, but</p><p>sometimes only with merriment. In the Saturnalia, or at any other time</p><p>when the fancy took him, he distributed to his company clothes, gold, and</p><p>silver; <b>sometimes coins of all sorts, even of the ancient kings of Rome</b></p><p>and of foreign nations.”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But I thought Roman coinage wasn’t minted until long after the Roman Kingdom had ended?</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering Suetonius was alive only a few decades after Augustus’s death I imagine his information regarding Augustus would be pretty accurate. Unlike some historians who write centuries after the time period they are writing about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any information on what Suetonius is referring to when he says that Augustus gifted people coinage of the Roman Kingdom?</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: Project Gutenberg</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1364617[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 7903109, member: 115909"]Gaius Suetonius was a 1st century Roman historian whose most well known work was “De Vita Caesarum” commonly referred to as “The Twelve Caesars”. Today I was re-reading his biography of Augustus and Suetonius says the following: “Festivals and holidays he usually celebrated very expensively, but sometimes only with merriment. In the Saturnalia, or at any other time when the fancy took him, he distributed to his company clothes, gold, and silver; [B]sometimes coins of all sorts, even of the ancient kings of Rome[/B] and of foreign nations.” But I thought Roman coinage wasn’t minted until long after the Roman Kingdom had ended? Considering Suetonius was alive only a few decades after Augustus’s death I imagine his information regarding Augustus would be pretty accurate. Unlike some historians who write centuries after the time period they are writing about. Does anyone have any information on what Suetonius is referring to when he says that Augustus gifted people coinage of the Roman Kingdom? Source: Project Gutenberg [ATTACH=full]1364617[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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