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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;octavius, post: 4564596, member: 100777&quot;]More, smaller aes formatum.</p><p><br /></p><p>also, bronze ax from central Italy c. 6th-4th century BC. These were also used as trade items; form of proto money. </p><p>I imagine this could also be termed aes formatum since as Alegandron has mentioned that term simly means with form in Latin.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting aside about the term formatum -&nbsp; Roman soldiers in camp made their own cheese. They carried with them a mold to make the cheese in,&nbsp; which was called a &quot;formatum&quot; loosely translated as that which gives it a form or shape. The Latin for cheese is caseum. They called the cheese &quot;caseum formatum&quot; or shaped cheese. The word for cheese in Italian (formaggio) , and in French (fromage) actually comes from formatum (the wooden mold or apparatus) rather than the actual word for the cheese itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1130226[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1130227[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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