Salvete omnes!
Got my coin in the post today, really thrilled! Mindblowing as an
average joe, you can actually hold a piece of the
Roman past for yourself!
I always thought
numismatics must be a wallet-breaking hobby to collect coins I thought would've been in museums. It really blew me away at the huge selection normal people were able to access!
Being my first coin, I
had no idea which emperor to get so I decided to get one with the profile of
Roma herself! From there I thought I'd likely be getting something
Republican, but then I saw the
Urbs Roma nummus. When the Capitoline
Wolf statue was completely debunked as being a
complete Medieval creation, I thought that meant the figure of the
lupa with two babies underneath must've been a
medieval concept as well. It was jaw-dropping to see it on an actual
Roman era coin! Thankfully, the
nummus was affordable enough I didn't have to take out a mortgage to get it, haha. How did I do guys?
