A remarkable talisman of antiquity, this denarius is adorned on one side with a proud imperial portrait and on the other with the image of a helmet resting on a...
A remarkable talisman of antiquity, this denarius is adorned on one side with a proud imperial portrait and on the other with the image of a helmet resting on a throne. To wear it in its boldly simple setting is to touch directly the glory and grandeur of Rome at her height, to become—in some small way—part of that vanished world.