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Spintria
A spintria (plural, ''spintriae'') is a small bronze or brass Roman token, possibly for use in brothels, usually depicting sexual acts or symbols. ==Use== Some scholars have argued that ''spintriae'' were used to pay prostitutes. Under Caracalla, an equestrian was sentenced to death for bringing a coin with the emperor's likeness into a brothel; he was spared only by the emperor's own death.〔Cassius Dio (78.16.5. )〕 There is no direct ancient evidence, however, to support the theory that ''spintriae'' were created as tokens for exchange in place of official coinage. Numismatist Theodore V. Buttrey suggests that they were used as game pieces.〔Thomas A. McGinn, ''The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World'' (University of Michigan Press, 2004), p. 115.〕 They may have been gaming tokens. They seem to have been produced for only a short period, mostly in the 1st century AD.
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