Hello Argentarius

[enaid]

Hello Argentarius and welcome to Legal Beagles.
Please have a look round and if you need any help with anything give a shout, someone will soon be along to help you.
If you have an ongoing claim, or a problem you need answers to, then you can start a thread in the appropriate forum. Once again if you need help doing this just ask.
When you have settled in, if you feel like a chat we have the Legal Beagle Chatroom, or there is The Lamp Post for off topic threads. Hope to speak soon Enaid x

[Nattie]

Re: Hello Argentarius

Welcome to the beagles forum. Argentina and star sign?

[argentarius]

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[Paule]

Re: Hello Argentarius

Hmm A Greek Banker or a play on words???

[argentarius]

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Ah PKea is getting closer. I don't think Greek, rather more Latin. And a play on words too.

[Nattie]

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this is going to intrigue me for weeks, me thinks.

[Paule]

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Ok So you're not a banker, in the Cashier at Natwest way, but a person who deals with the money of their own business, or is employed in the changing of curencies.

[Paule]

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The Argentarii at Romeb were also called argenteae mensae exercitores, argenti distractores and negotiatores stipis argentariae (Orelli, Inscript. n. 4060). They must be distinguished from the mensarii or public bankers, though even the ancients confound the terms, as the mensarii sometimes did the same kind of business as the argentarii, and they must also be distinguished from the nummularii [Mensarii; Nummularii.] The argentarii were private persons, who carried on business on their own responsibility, and were not in the service of the republic but the shops or tabernae which they occupied and in which they transacted their business about the forum, were state property (Dig. 18 tit. 1 s32; Liv. XL.51.) As their chief business was that of changing money, the argentarii probably existed at Rome from very early times, as the intercourse of the Romans with other Italian nations could not well exist without them; the first mention, however, of their existing at Rome and having their shops or stalls around the forum, occurs about B.C. 350, in the wars against the Samnites (Liv. VII.21). The business of the argentarii, with which that of the mensarii coincided in many points, was very varied, and comprised almost every thing connected with money or mercantile transactions, but it may be divided into the following branches.

[argentarius]

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I don't think I'm as clever as you are PKea; perhaps mensarius would have been a better term although I certainly don't sit behind the counter in NatWest (or any other counter for that matter).

I'm also not involved with any party to the current test case.

I think that's enough "20 questions" for now.