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At Ancient Coin Store Online, we do our best to keep our inventory filled with the widest variety of discount ancient Roman coins. Coins in this genre span a long and colorful period of time in Roman history telling us the political, economical, artistic and social trends of the time in which they were developed. When you buy a ancient Romain coin you are not only buying a wonderful looking coin, you are also buying a a cross-section of ancient Roman History.
- The Romans minted huge numbers of ancient roman coins and several million are said to still be around today. Lumps of bronze called AES RUDE, were the earliest known ancient bronze Roman coins in central Italy. They were followed next by AES SIGNATUM, quadrilateral, brick shaped, or oblong cast pieces of bronze struck into ancient Roman bronze coins.
- About 269 B.C., they were replaced by large round cast ancient Roman bronze coins, called AES GRAVE, for local use, and a group of ancient Roman silver coins, called didrachms, for trade with the Greek cities founded in southern Italy. These ancient Roman coins were followed by other forms of money; an ancient roman silver coin called the victoriatus, which ended in the materialization of the denarius. This ancient Roman coin was to become Rome's standard coin for several hundred years. Curing the Roman republic, coins were sanctioned by a group of moneyers, minor elected public officials.
- By A.D. 14, Roman glory had been restored to the Empire. Led by Augustus, a complete overhaul of ancient Roman coins happened. There were many wars during this time and it became generally accepted that a great war general could issue new ancient coins to pay is fighting troops. Augustus, now the commanding general and governor, issued gold and silver coins with his newly found authority and permitted the old senatorial issued coins, which were mainly silver denarii, to end. Augustus permitted the base metal ancient roman coins to stay in the care of the Senate.
- The letters SC in the description of these ancient Roman coins stand for SENATUS CONSULTO and show that Augustus' circle of power approved the coins.
- Augustus replaced the drab looking ancient roman bronze coins of the late republic with a new series of coins, some of them in brass. The sestertius and the dupondius fit into this category. Others were struck in bright copper, like the quadrans. Later other emperors tried to change the system of Roman coinage with limited results. Augustus standard would stand as the de facto standard of ancient Roman coinage for the next 200 hundred years.