May 28, 2010: Sex coins

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Well, let the blog entry tell it like it is:

This is a spintria. They were used in ancient Rome to request and pay for different services in brothels and from prostitutes on the street. Since there were a lot of foreigners coming to the city that did not speak the language and most of the prostitutes were slaves captured from other places the coins made the transactions easy and efficient. One side of these coins showed what the buyer wanted and the other showed the amount of money to be paid for the act.

Genius: if your outsiders can't ask for the act by name, just point to the coin of what you want.

And one imagines they might have names for the coins, too, just like "two bits", the coin above is the "badonkadonk".