• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    I have a whole bunch of those back at the villa. Let me know if you want some advice on them. 12 denari for a basic model, but if you want a good one, you’re looking at a good 8 or 9 nummus aureus.

    People think there’s some sort of enigma to them. It’s like they’ve never even used one, you know?

    Edit: Apologies, I have been visiting the East. By 12, I meant XII and by 8 or 9, I meant VIII or IX.

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      XII is an extortion price. How am I supposed to feed my family while paying for something like that. Prices have really gone up ever since Diocletian started messing with the coins. Anyone know how many denarrii I can get for X old school pre-Diocletian denarrii these days?

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      Hey, I’ve been saying the same thing about discovering postpunk band Tones On Tails for around thirty years now!

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    Me and my fratres in armis when the barbarorum use the decem foramina instrumentum for knitting.

    romans laughing

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    Woah, wait. You aren’t handling that with your bare hands are you? You dont want to know what the Pharisees do with those things.

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      They’re not for making glove fingers! Can you use them for making glove fingers? Sure, and I can haul water by walking my goat back and forth to the well with my chamber pot on her back, but I don’t.