The coin, which dates to around 30 A.D., features a man reclining on his stomach on a sofa with an erect cock, one hand stretching back to grab his lover’s arm while he takes it up the ass. On the reverse side: the Roman numeral XII. Andrew Sullivan pointed us to it, and as the auctioneer describes it:
On less well preserved specimens the figure reclining on the couch could be thought to be a woman, but his sexual organ on our coin proves that he is in fact a man. Our obverse is from a different die than the specimen illustrated by Buttrey, pl. 3, 7. According to Buttrey, p. 60, another specimen like ours combining this scene with the number XII on reverse is in the BM [British Museum]. This is one of the few coins in the Spintria series that shows homosexual intercourse. It is a great rarity of historical significance.
This all just proves again that sex has always sold, so much so that they used to put it on the money. Larger image below.
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This is nothing compared to the Roman chalice found by E.P. Warren, now on display at the British National Museum!
You can see his dick sliding up the boy’s hole!
http://www.gay-art-history.org/gay-history/gay-art/gay-rome-art/warrencupL.htm