I learned something today… Although wikipedia says we can’t be so sure about th
I learned something today… Although wikipedia says we can’t be so sure about the meaning of it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintria These would be coins worth collecting. gaksdesigns: Sex Coins From Ancient Rome. Spintria (Ancient Roman coins with sex scenes) were used in ancient Rome to request and pay for different “services” in brothels and from prostitutes on the street. Since there were a lot of foreigners coming to the city that did not speak the language and most of the prostitutes were slaves captured from other places the coins made the transactions easy and efficient. One side of these coins showed what the buyer wanted and the other showed the amount of money to be paid for the act. (via) -- source link
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