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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4404111, member: 99456&quot;]Being interested in the Roman republic, I wanted to have one example of these lumps of bronze that once facilitated trade.&nbsp; Aes formatum or aes rude?&nbsp; Here are the definitions that I used to decide &quot;<i>aes formatum</i>&quot; - is there a well accepted classification?</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>&quot;Aes rude are amorphous pieces of bronze of irregular weight without any official stamp or mark while aes formatum are pieces of bronze which have a certain shape.&quot;</p><p>- <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/documents/BERTOL_FARAC_Aes_rude_and_aes_formatum.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/documents/BERTOL_FARAC_Aes_rude_and_aes_formatum.pdf" rel="nofollow">Bertol &amp; Farac</a> (2012, Aes rude and aes formatum - a new topology based on the revised Mazin Hoard</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>also the definition on <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Aes%20Rude" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Aes%20Rude" rel="nofollow">this page</a>:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;Still today, some authorities call these cast shapes aes rude, some call them both aes rude and aes formatum (classifying aes formatum is a type of aes rude), and others identify the cast shapes as aes formatum only (with aes rude the precursor to and different from aes formatum).&quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I added a denarius to the photo to show the scale - a little over 615 grams and 103 cubic centimeters of bronze.&nbsp; This one a quadrilateral, brick-shaped ingot.&nbsp; This is the only &quot;coin&quot; I have that might have other uses: hammer, paperweight, doorstop...while the numbers from this <a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/the-monetary-history-of-the-roman-republic/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/roman-empire/the-monetary-history-of-the-roman-republic/" rel="nofollow">site</a> do suggest that bronze was an improvement in portability vs. oxen (100 lbs of bronze = 1 ox), both seem a bit inconvenient to carry.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1106650[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republican, <i>aes formatum</i>, rough brick shape, ~5th-4th century BC, Central Italy (ex private collection ex Munich auction house 1990s)</p><p><b>Obv:</b> oxidized bronze<b> Rev:</b> oxidized bronze<b> Size:</b> 615g, 103 cubic cm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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