Gareth Harney

The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects - coins. The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object - the coin. When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, its permanence, and...

The extraordinary story of ancient Rome told through one of the world's most universal, humane and powerful objects—the coin. A Financial Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read HOLD THE POWER AND GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND. A wild she-wolf tenderly nurses infant twins Romulus and Remus. Marcus...