In 500? In 500 Rome wasn't yet a real city and the Etruscan influence on the city had not yet run its full course. It's hard to talk about Rome at all that early. In 500 coinage was probably not yet introduced, though it would be early in the fourth century. The earliest Roman coinage was the aes rude consisting (as the name suggests) essentially of hunks of bronze, which might be hammered or molded into various shapes. At this early stage in the city's development the economy can hardly be said to have existed, as in 500 the Romans had only just established a formal modus by which property could be transferred and acquired. Not until 326, when the first coins were minted at allied Naples, did the Romans introduce formal minted coinage into the city, and only around 280 or so did such mintings become regular. But in 500? In 500 almost all the wealth of inhabitants of the city consisted of the small local plots and pastures tended by the city's inhabitants in the immediate area surrounding the city. The economy of the Roman world was always primarily an agrarian one, and around the end of the kingship there was little other economic activity to be had at all.