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How did Suetonius describe Emperor Augustus's interest in old and foreign coins?

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Ancient Roman coin — coin collecting Obverse of a silver denarius showing the mythical hero Aeneas.

According to the Roman historian Suetonius in his work De vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars), the emperor Augustus held a fondness for old and foreign coins. Suetonius notes that Augustus frequently gave these coins to his friends as gifts.1