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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3746710, member: 19463&quot;]Mine is 10.9g.&nbsp; It came to me from a trusted source as being ex. Vecchi 4 Sep 98 lot 555 (part) which suggests it was Aes Rude rather than a piece of any old scrap metal.&nbsp; This is a case where provenance would seem to be a matter of importance.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1004899[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the pieces with flat surfaces or cut marks, it would seem that the people using this as currency would have no reason to separate out pieces made by dribbling in water from those hacked from old Aes Formatum or recycled from broken tools.&nbsp; I would expect a transaction to have been a matter of weighing out pieces that totaled a desired number and then dividing the last one to make the total come out even.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I would be interested in the answer to that old question, &quot;How much was it worth?&quot;&nbsp; What could you buy with my 10g piece?&nbsp; I suspect most exchanges involved a basket full of several pounds rather than buying a cup of wine from a street vendor but it always is interesting to understand the place of an item in the economy of its day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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