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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2531006, member: 75525&quot;]This post is about my newest piece. If you do not want the back story, skip to the end. I think of cast bars and parts of cast bars as much older than cast and struck Roman coins. This is probably not the case. Thurlow &amp; Vecchi give the following time line:</p><ul> <li>Aes Rude - down to 4th cent BC - irregular lumps of bronze. Many of the pieces in this category in my collection are broken from a larger bar. [ATTACH=full]540975[/ATTACH]</li> <li>Ramo Secco and other bars - late 4th to early 3rd century BC - there are several bars that fall in this category including bars with and without marks[ATTACH=full]540973[/ATTACH]Ramo Secco[ATTACH=full]540976[/ATTACH]parts of bars two with designs and one without; a part of a bronze knife and a part of a bronze ax</li> <li>Bars with designs or Aes Signatum (now called currency bars by some). I do not have one of these yet. I pretend like the following piece is from a currency bar. [ATTACH=full]540983[/ATTACH] </li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>That was a long lead for a recent purchase.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540971[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]540972[/ATTACH] </p><p>Aes Formatum.</p><p>A fragment of ingot, late 4th-early 3rd century BC.</p><p>AE.g. 63.20Very nice. Earthy green patina.This attractive example has the weight of a cast Quadrans of Roma/Roma series. </p><p><br /></p><p>I liked this one because you can see a line were the larger bar was broken into a desired size. I think it is hard to say what was the intended weight. The oldest Aes Grave series mentioned in T&amp;V, 289 - 245 BC, gives a weight range of 42 to 77 grams for a Sextans (2/12ths of an As). The Roma / Roma series of Aes Grave, 269 to 240 BC, gives a weight range of 55 to 81 grams for a Quadrans (3/12ths of an As). I think it is a nice sized piece of a bar that someone wanted in about this size a long time ago. Given the size, it could have been used for payments in the first Punic war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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