Each of the 16 coins is a denarius — the standard Roman coin ... was made in about 57 B.C., during the late stages of the Roman Republic when Roman officials were ostensibly elected by ...

This Roman silver denarius coin was one of 5294 British Iron Age and Roman coins excavated at a Late Iron Age shrine near Hallaton, Leicestershire. It has been dated to c. 211 BC, making it ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading troops across the border back into Italy would be declared a public enemy. It was, quite simply, an act of war.