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en-wikipedia-org-1721		Roman finance - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2745	400	62	Societas were groups who could combine their resources to place a bid for a government contract and then share in the resulting profit or loss.[2][5] The publicani (public contractors) were an early incarnation of societas who would bid for the right to collect taxes from the Roman provinces. Roman peasants who needed money to pay their taxes would use an inverted form of this process by selling the right to a portion of their harvest in the future in exchange for cash in the present.[15] The Sulpicii arose as professional bankers in the first century AD, and among other forms of financial intermediation, they offered financing for speculators in grain markets.[2][5] With the dawn of the Roman Empire, a major change took place, as the emperors assumed the reins of financial control.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1721.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1721.txt