Coins are a special, material link to both recent and ancient past. When you pick up a coin, whether it is fifty, a hundred or a thousand years old, you hold history in your hand.
 
In this book the author, Stein A. Evensen, lets the Roman coins tell stories about ancient Rome. You will be fascinated by the stunning beauty of the coins and to hear the history of architecture, politics as well as marriages, war and glory told through them.