The Pax Romana coin was a gold coin made during the times of Rome's "golden ages" which is also known as the Pax Romana. During these times the Romans were innovative in many ways and one of them was using a type of currency to purchase other things for trade. While visiting, I got to see the coin myself and the images on them carry quite a significance. On the coin, it shows two clasping hand caduceus ( the staff of Hermes, a short staff with two serpents wrapped around and wings at the top). The clasped hands represented peace within the empire and the caduceus represented trade and it was placed in between the two hands. On the other side of the coin, it shows the two letters "SC" and it stands for "Senatus Consulto" which means "supported by the decree of the senate). This was mostly seen on the bronze coin so it can show that it has value and is not meaningless. Although that is just one example of a coin, during the Pax Romana there were no newspapers or a way to get news around and so the government would quite often change some of the images on the coin to help communicate with people. Inscriptions and images on the coins sent messages from Rome to the empire. Sometimes, the emperor would change the images of the coin to show his accomplishments or just to put an image of himself. Furthermore, coins were made up of 3 metals; Gold, silver, and bronze. The value of each coin depended on the metal that was used to create the coin so gold was valued the highest while bronze was the least. Moreover, from my visit I have seen that the Romans used the coin not only for trade but to unify the empire helping others, not from the roman empire adapt to their currency and thrive during their golden ages of the empire's economy.