The National Archaeological Museum of Florence, from 10 December 2009 to 30 June 2010, offers an interesting exhibition, dedicated to the role of money in Roman Republican and Imperial.

The exhibition "The currency of Roma.Il power of the image in the Roman world" is staged in the Hall Medici and consists of several pieces of Roman coins. The collection exhibited, including the different types of Roman coinage, until the fall of the Roman Empire of the West: the first Roman coins made of bronze, according to the method of Etruscan and Italic, the silver, minted by model Magna Graecia, until the last series, which recorded the names of Roman emperors.

The exhibition aims to analyze the role of money, which in Roman society was a symbol of great power both economically and socially. Indeed, especially in imperial times, the currency which reported the faces of the emperors and their families, held an important role in political campaigning. So even in Republican times coins carried the most representative scenes of myths, heroes and legends of Rome's history, and sometimes also covered stories related to the most prominent Roman families. Julius Caesar was the first emperor to want to be alive on a portrait series of coins. This interesting digression on the currency of Rome, offers important insights for understanding the political dynamics and social history of Rome, and the role of money.

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