John Conduitt ✭✭✭✭

Yes thanks :D . I noticed that too late. I was going to edit but if I do that it seems to delete the post and put it into quarantine, so I couldn't be bothered. The point is the same. (View Post)

This was a problem that continued into the modern era. In medieval England, they cut the silver pennies into halves and quarters to get change - these were small bits of silver, but they were still w… (View Post)

I would've thought people could tell the approximate percentage of gold by the colour. I believe it was the possibility of debasement that resulted in the invention of coins in the first place. The a… (View Post)

Romulus died the century before coins were invented (if he actually existed) and 400 years before the Romans used coins. Anything depicting Romulus has to be either in honour of him (which the Romans… (View Post)

Technically, you can get back to Julius Caesar (the first to feature on coins), although Augustus was the first emperor anyway. There are lots of emperors that are all but unobtainable, but the major… (View Post)