Imagine that you're an official in the Roman Empire in 117 CE at the greatest extent of Rome. Your empire stretches from what is now Portugal to the mouth of the Euphrates River (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait). Among your many duties, you have to preside over a case that deals with a dispute between two men over land deed records. You also need to pay your soldiers fighting for you in a conflict-ridden region of Germania. While all this is going on, you worry about not having enough gold on hand to cast the much-needed coins. How do you solve such gargantuan problems? And what does this have to do with our world today from a financial perspective?

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