Roman aureus minted under Domitian.

In the New Testament period, the only golden coin, the aureus, was worth approximately 3, 200 of the smallest bronze coin, the lepton ( translated into Latin as minuti ); while the Roman standard silver coin, the denarius, was worth 128 leptons.

A Roman aureus depicting Elagabalus.

Roman aureus bearing the portraits of Mark Antony ( left ) and Augustus | Octavian ( right ).

Roman aureus depicting Elagabalus.

Roman aureus | aurei bearing the portraits of Mark Antony ( left ) and Octavian ( right ), issued in 41 BC to celebrate the establishment of the Second Triumvirate by Octavian, Antony and Marcus Lepidus in 43 BC.

Roman aureus depicting Elagabalus.

Roman aureus struck under the rule of Pertinax.

The Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus ( gold ), the denarius ( silver ), the sestertius ( brass ), the dupondius ( brass ), and the as ( copper ).

A Roman aureus struck under Augustus, c. AD 13 – 14 ; the reverse shows Tiberius riding on a quadriga, celebrating the fifteenth renewal of his tribunal power.

Roman aureus minted in 83 during the reign of Domitian.

The solidus was reintroduced by Constantine I in 312 AD, permanently replacing the aureus as the gold coin of the Roman Empire.

The solidus was reintroduced by Constantine I in 312 AD, permanently replacing the aureus as the gold coin of the Roman Empire.

Analysis of the Roman aureus shows the purity level usually to have been near to 24 carat gold in excess of 99 %, 23 carat of 95. 83 % gold English Sovereign ( 1489 – 1604 ), 91. 7 % of 22 carat gold for the British Sovereign ( 1817 – 1917, 1925, 1957 – present ) and American Eagle ( 1795 – 1933 ), and 21. 6 carat of 90 % gold for the United States Gold Dollar ( 1849 – 1889 ).

Due to runaway inflation caused by the Roman government issuing base-metal coinage but refusing to accept anything other than silver or gold for tax payments, the value of the gold aureus in relation to denarii grew drastically.

Constantine introduced the solidus in 309, replacing the aureus as the standard gold coin of the Roman Empire.

It was patterned after the Roman aureus and its halves.

* Roman Empire — 1 aureus = 25 denarii

Aphilas produced the smallest gold coins ever minted in sub-saharan Africa, equivalent to one sixteenth of a Roman aureus.

Roman sestertius depicting Caligula, c. AD 38.

The book has generated controversy for depicting religious fanaticism and mob violence among early Christians in Roman Egypt.

Roman coin depicting election

A Roman denarius depicting Elagabalus.

The reverse reads Fides Exercitus, or The loyalty of the army, depicting the Roman goddess Fides ( goddess ) | Fides between two Roman army Aquila ( Roman ) | standards.

Roman denarius depicting Aquilia Severa, the second wife of Elagabalus.

A late Roman statue Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs | depicting the four Tetrarchs, now in Venice

1929 Belgium | Belgian banknote, depicting Ceres ( Roman mythology ) | Ceres, Neptune ( mythology ) | Neptune and caduceus.

The temple and the surrounding precinct were adorned with numerous statues depicting Hadrian, the gods and personifications of the Roman provinces.

While it was not necessarily a Roman invention, Plautus did develop his own style of depicting the clever slave.

Tabula Iliaca, a 1st-century BC Roman bas-relief depicting scenes from Trojan War narratives

In Book 8, Aeneas allies with King Evander, who occupies the future site of Rome, and is given new armor and a shield depicting Roman history.

Detail from an early 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus depicting the death of Meleager

It is a true open-air museum, with Roman and medieval pillars, sarcophagi depicting the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the other the rape of Proserpina, a fourteenth-century sarcophagus and fragments of the façade of the Duomo.

Roman denarius depicting Titus, c. 79.

A Good Friday procession in Mumbai by Christianity in India | Indian Roman Catholics, depicting the Way of the Cross

Pair of Roman statuettes ( 3rd century AD ) depicting the Dioscuri as horsemen, with their characteristic skullcaps ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )

On the other hand there are many beautiful châteaux in the Bordeaux region still depicting this Roman villa style of architecture, an example of this being Château Lagorce in Haux.

Roman statue of Polyhymnia, 2nd century AD, depicting her in the act of dancing.

Selznick thought that it was not Dalí's fault, for his work was much finer and much better for the purpose than he ever thought it would be, and although much of Dalí's work was used, one dream sequence depicting Bergman turning into a statue of the Roman goddess Diana was cut.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.

Agrippina was born as the second daughter and fourth child to Roman statesman and Augustus ’ ally Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.

As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.

The Roman historian Tacitus states that Agrippina had an ‘ impressive record as wife and mother ’.

Agrippina the Younger would become a future Roman Empress and mother to the later Emperor Nero.

Their children were born at various places throughout the Roman Empire and Agrippina acquired a well-deserved reputation for successful childbearing.

Eventually Agrippina was proud of her large family and this was a part of the reason she was popular with Roman citizens.

Agrippina ’ s actions were considered unusual as for a Roman wife, because a conventional Roman wife was required to stay home.

The Roman citizens had great sympathy for Agrippina and her family.

Agrippina became involved in a group of Roman Senators who opposed the growing power and influence of the notorious Praetorian Guard Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

In 26, Agrippina requested Tiberius to allow her to marry her brother-in-law, Roman Senator Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus.

Tiberius falsely accused Agrippina of planning to take sanctuary besides the image of Augustus or with the Roman Army abroad.

Agrippina and her sons were put on trial by the Roman Senate.

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

Agrippina was the first Roman matron to have more than one child from her family to reign on the Roman throne.

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.