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Curiosities of ancient Rome (Economy)

The world of ancient Romans abounded in a number of amazing curiosities and information. The source of knowledge about the life of the Romans are mainly works left to us by ancient writers or discoveries. The Romans left behind a lot of strange information and facts that are sometimes hard to believe.

Publicans – Roman tenants of public revenues

Publicans (publicani) in ancient Rome were entrepreneurs who administered taxes and participated in lucrative contracts to supply food and equipment to the legions and carried out large construction projects.

28 October 2024

A mummified child's hand holding a Roman coin

Ordinary and extraordinary taxes in ancient Rome – financial pillars of Empire

Taxes were the financial foundation of ancient Rome, supporting its extensive administration, army, road construction, and other public investments. Two types of tributes played a key role in the Roman fiscal system: ordinary taxes (tributum ordinarium) and extraordinary taxes (tributum extraordinarium).

18 October 2024

Emperors Pupienus and Balbinus on Roman coins

Gaius Pescennius Niger and his coinage

Gaius Pescennius Niger appeared in the pages of history in extremely interesting and difficult times for Imperium Romanum. After the murder of Emperor Commodus and the short and at the same time tragic reign of Pertinax, the entire state plunged into a civil war that lasted until 197 CE.

6 October 2022

Monetary portrait of Pescennius Niger, RIC IV Pescennius Niger 19

Gratidianus and monetary reform

Marcus Gratidianus was a Roman politician born around 125 BCE. In 85 BCE he held the office of praetor. During this period, Rome struggled with an economic crisis caused by civil wars. It manifested itself, inter alia, in the destabilization of the exchange rate of silver coins (denarii) to bronze coins (asses).

3 August 2021

Loan for consumption in Roman law

Real contracts were the oldest type of contracts in the Roman law. Eventually there were several types of contracts in this category: loan for consumption (mutuum), deposit (depositum), loan for use (commodatum) and pledge (pignus). Initially there was only the loan for consumption which emerged from even older nexum.

2 July 2021

Curiosities of ancient Rome (Economy)

Publicans – Roman tenants of public revenues

Ordinary and extraordinary taxes in ancient Rome – financial pillars of Empire

Gaius Pescennius Niger and his coinage

Gratidianus and monetary reform

Loan for consumption in Roman law

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