Coins of ancient Rome
Nude Figures and Erotic Images on Ancient Coins. These coins were made in Rome around the first century BC and they were paying for certain services, or they went as usual?









Category: Art, Bizarre, Interesting&Notable, Photography, World

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For anyone else who stumbles across this post and can’t discern whether the coins are legitimate or not — they are.
They’re called Spintria. The wikipedia page can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintria
And there is a nice Straight Dope article on them here:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2355/pay-for-play