SEX, LOVE AND MONEY

Abstract

We present a historical path of the association between money/ coins to sex and love, since early Greek coinage, 2500 years ago, until later uses as love symbols in the 19th century, and in prostitution, or ideologically associated to it. The use of coins representing the nudity, eroticism, sexual, prostitution or love is presented. Although always associated, coin and love and sex, meanings along the History were different, and meanings were updated, not always according to its original intended meaning, as is the case of the roman p n t ae.