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supervised the issuing of Roman coins. Their number was increased by Julius Caesar to four, but again reduced by Augustus. As they acted for the senate they only coined copper money under the empire, the gold and silver coinage being under the exclusive control of the emperor.
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in burning forbidden books. It is possible that they were entrusted by the praetor with the settlement of certain civil processes of a semi-criminal nature, in which private citizens acted as prosecutors. They also had to collect the
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served as public bankers; the full range of their financial functions in 216 BC, when the commission included two men of
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were special commissions of three men appointed for specific administrative tasks apart from the regular duties of
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Most commonly when historians refer to Roman "triumvirs", they mean two political alliances during the
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was a loose political alliance arranged in 60 or 59 BC that lasted until the death of Crassus in the
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notes, show them to have been "a mixture of police superintendents and justices of the peace." The
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They went the rounds by night to maintain order, and among other things they assisted the
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Three-man commissions were also appointed for purposes such as establishing
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were first established around 290 to 287 BC. They were supervised by the
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State, Society, and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome, 241-167 B.C.
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oversaw prisons and executions, along with other functions that, as
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in 53 BC; they had no official capacity or function as actual
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most of their functions passed into the hands of the
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Index

Triumvirs
Politics of ancient Rome

Roman Kingdom
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
Principate
Dominate
Western
Eastern
Timeline
Constitution
Kingdom
Republic
Sullan republic
Empire
Augustan reforms
Late Empire
Political institutions
Imperium
Collegiality
Auctoritas
Roman citizenship
Cursus honorum
Assemblies
Centuriate
Curiate
Plebeian
Tribal
Ordinary magistrates

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