Friday 27 January 2012

Brothel Token?

The Museum of London has put on display what is believed to be a Roman brothel token, depicting a couple on a couch with the number 14 on the other side. Service 14? The mind boggles. This is probably the first such token - a spintria - to have been discovered in Britain, certainly in London. It was discovered in Thames mud by that new breed of mudlark using a metal detector. Little is known about these brothel tokens. Could they have been the Roman way of solving an early euro crisis? Christine Lagarde of the IMF take note. The display runs until April.

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