Tokens; Spintriae; Numismatics; Sex; Roman World; Sicily; Italy (Other Keyword)

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Erotic Tokens for Sex and ‘Special’ Services: New Spintriae from Archaeological Contexts (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonino Crisà.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The project "Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean", held at the University of Warwick, is currently examining token production on a wide scale, assessing new finds from European museums. Roman "tesserae" (tokens) may be defined as monetiform objects produced and used instead of money in specific civic contexts. As a Research Fellow in the on-going...