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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2732293, member: 75525&quot;]I have had good luck this year finding and purchasing conch shell cast bronze. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]621659[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]621660[/ATTACH] </p><p>From left to right and top to bottom:</p><p>Astralaga/Astralaga sextans, 20.0 grams</p><p>Astralaga/Conch Shell biunex, 18.4 grams</p><p>Conch Shell/Conch Shell sextans, 33.6 grams</p><p>Fragment of Conch Shell/Caedus sextans, 17.2</p><p>Bronze Conch Shell, 46.1 grams</p><p>Silver ingot (hacksilber?), 6.86 grams, the vendor said Asia Minor, 7th to 6th cent BC</p><p>Fragment of Dolphin/Thunderbolt triens, 30.6 grams</p><p>Lead Conch Shell, 54.4 grams</p><p>Bronze triangular bar, 87.4 grams</p><p>Ramo Secco fragment, 53.8 grams</p><p>bronze bar fragment, 62.0 grams</p><p>Fragment of bronze disc with decorations, 28.4 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>I fibbed a bit in the title. There are two pieces that are not bronze. All are in the pre-struck-coin time. I read an interesting book on pre-coin silver from the Near East:</p><p>Hacksilber to Coinage... edited by Miriam Balmuth, ANS 2001. The hacksilber in that book looks more like crescent moons than the piece I show above. If anyone has a similar piece, please post it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have looked for bronze conch shells on the internet and have found about 40. I will post details later when I have some time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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