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MORE ON ANCIENT CLOTHING STYLESLast 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
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 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.  To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:  Wayne Homren, Editor 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 All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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