Instructor: Chuck Goergen earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of Detroit. He spent his over 40-year career at the Savannah River Site, working with nuclear materials in Laboratories, Production, Engineering, and Projects across numerous facilities on the site. He spent a year on loan to the DOE Office of Nuclear Weapons and has interfaced with many DOE sites and liaised with the IAEA. His international work took him to Japan, Austria, the UK, and Russia. He enjoys ancient and military history as well as coin collecting. Description: In this course, we will cover the development of the ancient Roman Republic economy and monetary system in relation to historical events. From 510 BC to the end of the Republic in 27 BC, the Roman monetary system evolved from the use of crude lumps of bronze to handsome coinage. Roman Republic and Imperial economic and political systems projected power and propaganda over the Italian peninsula and across the Mediterranean and western Europe. Metals were based on bronze, copper, silver, and gold. Millions of these coins minted by the tresviri and generals have survived and are easily available, satisfying many collection themes (e.g., year, heroes, gods, events, daily life, and animals).