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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3757801, member: 75525&quot;]Aes Rude are like most old stuff. You try to understand what you are buying, read as much as you can and then go for it. I suspect that small aes rude may be easy to fake. I have talked to bronze workers who say they can produce about any patina you want. I have read that the only thing rarer than most cast coins are collectors of cast coins. Most of these are small and not worth enough to mass produce them for the relatively few sales they would generate. As many folks here know, I have a few:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007104[/ATTACH] </p><p>some ramo secco bar pieces, broken plates, a broken ax, an apostrophe (one of many shapes I have) </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007105[/ATTACH] </p><p>two of the larger pieces </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007114[/ATTACH] </p><p>this pic shows a RS bar piece ans two small pieces with marks (+ and C), I think the plate is Garrucci</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007115[/ATTACH] </p><p>If I have done the math right, the large pan is one week&#039;s pay (21 asses = 6900 grams = 15 US pounds) for a Roman soldier about 400 BC. The small pan is half a day&#039;s pay or 1.5 asses. </p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-03-10T14:36:00-07:00&amp;max-results=7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-03-10T14:36:00-07:00&amp;max-results=7" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-03-10T14:36:00-07:00&amp;max-results=7</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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