Ancient Roman Coins - Spintrii

Spintrii (Latin spintria), also known as brothels brands - Coin counters, used in ancient Rome as a means of internal calculation in lupanariyah. The Russian numismatics in practice the term is sometimes applied to all tokens and ancient coins from the erotic storyline.

Most spintry minted from bronze and have an erotic story. Typically, this image of people in various positions during sex, naked men, a winged phallus, copulating animals. The most common subject is sex, men and women. On the reverse side of the counters are usually different Roman numerals, the meaning of which is not precisely determined. It is assumed that the image corresponds to the position provided for this counter service

There are similar products from other materials. Several of these brands of terracotta and the bones were found during the excavations of Pompeii. The most probable date for registration is spintry I and II century AD. Despite the widely recognized version of the application of these coins in a brothel, are nominated for the version that spintrii used as playing chips, and also may have been issued at the time of Tiberius to discredit the imperial power