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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 2177406, member: 9204&quot;]This is exactly the problem. Neither archaeological nor typological evidence bear out the theory. There isn&#039;t even any firm evidence that these are the &quot;tesserae&quot; briefly mentioned by Seutonius. I think there&#039;s a much stronger case to be made for these lead pieces as monetary tokens, in the vein of the US civil war tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m on a tablet, so I can&#039;t type too much, but there&#039;s I have a better explanation in my article in the Leaden Token Telegraph.</p><p><a href="http://www.mernick.org.uk/leadtokens/newsletters/LTT1311_93.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mernick.org.uk/leadtokens/newsletters/LTT1311_93.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.mernick.org.uk/leadtokens/newsletters/LTT1311_93.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: rereading that, I pretty much didn&#039;t even touch on their purpose. I do have a little book coming out later this year that has a much better collector&#039;s introduction to tesserae.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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