The Numismatic Bibliomania Society

PREV ARTICLE       NEXT ARTICLE       FULL ISSUE       PREV FULL ISSUE      

V21 2018 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 4, January 28, 2018, Article 25

MORE ON ANCIENT CLOTHING STYLES

Last week's issue included an excerpt from Mike Markowitz's CoinWeek article, "Does This Toga Make Me Look Fat? Clothing on Ancient Coins". Here's a great response by reader Gary Beals of Segovia, Spain. -Editor

Centurion GB Low Res Does this lorica segmentata make me look heavy?

After that great article on Roman artifacts, I could not resist. In addition to having some nice ancient coins of the Roman Empire -- including here in Spain -- I can also dress about six people in Roman garb. This lorica segmentata plate armor was eventually replaced by chain mail because it tended to fall apart after a lot of use.

I stand in front of Segovia's Roman acueduct built of some 20,000 pieces of granite about 1900 years ago. The acueduct is the mintmark seen on Spain's coins of centuries ago.

Thanks for the grins. So that's what classicist cosplay looks like. We could get Gary and his friends a job in security for the next New York International Coin show. Not even a jaded New Yorker would mess with them. But getting into a cab or Uber could be problematic. Perhaps quadregas through Central Park... -Editor

Roman-Style Hammered Coin Dies
Gary adds:

I recently donated to the Royal Mint of Segovia this pair of hammered dies as were used from Roman times clear into the 1700s in places. The stump is Spanish but the dies were hand-made in California. At some point a living history demonstration will have an actor in historical clothing making sample coins of tin.

Medieval dies stump

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CLOTHING ON ANCIENT COINS (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n03a25.html)

Heritage E-Sylum ad 2018-01-28


Wayne Homren, Editor

Google
 
NBS (coinbooks.org) Web

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org.

To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com

To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum

PREV ARTICLE       NEXT ARTICLE       FULL ISSUE       PREV FULL ISSUE      

V21 2018 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

Copyright © 1998 - 2012 The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS)
All Rights Reserved.

NBS Home Page
Contact the NBS webmaster
coin