Roman Coin Pencil Topper - Gold Plated

Product Description: This Roman Coin pencil topper is made from lead-free pewter that is 22ct gold plated and is a casting of an Aureus of Augustus on a topper base. It is supplied on a 13cm black wooden pencil with Roman numerals and their decimal equivalent values printed on it in silver.

Information: The aureus depicts the bust of Augustus and the inscription CAESAR on the obverse and a heifer with the inscription AVGVSTVS on the reverse. The original would have been struck circa 27 - 18BC.

Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in the system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. The system uses only seven symbols: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.