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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David@PCC, post: 2486929, member: 80556&quot;]Gold and silver were scarce in the Italian peninsula, so bronze was used to make transactions. So they were considered Italic bronze currency. If you think about it makes sense because the bronze was valuable for tool and weapons production. As I wrote earlier these are usually found cut into pieces </p><p><a href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=79320" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=79320" rel="nofollow">http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=79320</a>&nbsp; and possibly traded to make a smaller bronze implement, but that is only speculation on my part. If I remember correctly AES Rude came first, followed my Formatum, and ended with Signatum. It would have been maybe a hundred years after the introduction of Signatum that the first Roman coinage would have been minted. I think the first grave&#039;s came around 270 BC but others can probably give a better date?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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