A portrait in every purse
How Roman coins turned the face of power into something ordinary people carried every day.
Stories
Narratives from
the record.
Short essays on the people, places and ideas behind the coins.
Stories
Short essays on the people, places and ideas behind the coins.
How Roman coins turned the face of power into something ordinary people carried every day.
Why coins recovered from ancient shipwrecks matter so much to the people who study them.
How a gold coin from thirteenth century Florence became a byword for reliability.