Spintria - Roman erotic coins or tokens

A reminder that Martial's epigrams were not for nothing.

I don't know about the roman coins but I've seen some Aretine pottery..

edit, it may have been roman in the Arezzo archeology museum. Off to check.

They may have been used to pay prostitutes, who at times spoke a different language.

Language: the greatest art of all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintria

cool.

(top right) I knew Ben Lexon stole the winged keel idea from somewhere.

did check, roman and aretine having association.
I'm now mad at myself for not staring at the coins.

I just spent a half hour searching google for those coins. Good luck at finding them for sale!
I learned a lot about roman coins though.

fascinating.

I found this by running across replicas for sale, let me know if you really want them and I'll message you a link.

Can you still aquire these tokens?

Lee Bowen

Imagine going to the museum with six 13-year-old boys for a field trip and running into Greek stuff like this...... it's awkwardly funny.

The government and businesses are having a really tough time getting us to use dollar coins--Americans just don't seem to like 'em, tho the Canadians love their "loonies", dollar coins, apparently. Besides, get a dozen dollar coins in your pocket and they whang you in the leg painfully every time you take a step. But I bet if they copied some of the Roman designs, they'd really take off If the Canadian buck is a loonie because it's got a picture of a loon on it, what would be wall the Roman ones if the feds started using them?