{"id":104291,"date":"2022-04-13T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=104291"},"modified":"2022-04-13T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:44:58","slug":"roman-coin-depicting-mercury","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-coin-depicting-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman coin depicting Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman coin showing <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/merkury\/\">Mercury<\/a>. The denarius is from 82 BCE and was struck by Gaius Mamilius Limetanus. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/mercury-roman-god\/\">Mercury<\/a> (<em>Mercurius<\/em>) was the Roman god of trade, profit, and mercantile; also thieves and customs; the messenger of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/\">gods<\/a>. The coin shows the image of Mercury with a wide travel cap (<em>petasos<\/em>) on its head, protecting it from sun and rain; along with wings that symbolically gave him speed. On the left is the caduceus, an ancient trade symbol. The indents on the sides of the coin were a procedure used in ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a> to thwart attempts to counterfeit the coin&#8217;s value and use too little of the precious metal (silver or gold).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":104287,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-104291","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/104291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/104291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=104291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}