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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 4548274, member: 75525&quot;]I recently added an interesting piece of cast bronze to my collection of Roman Republican coins, cast bronze money from Central Italy and Roman scale weights. The marks of value, if that is what they are, are the same as a 2 As Roman scale weight found in excavations of Pompeii - II. The weight, 559 grams = 280 gr equivalent As, is close to two Roman pounds, 654 grams. Only a few of the early cast Asses weigh over 280 grams. This piece was advertised as - Of the greatest historical interest and apparently unpublished. A description of the piece and how it fits my collection is below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125891[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1125892[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1125893[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1125894[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic / Central Italy – Cast Bronze with Marks</p><p>Cast bronze was a form of money before Rome and Central Italy issued coins. This triangular piece looks like it was broken from a pie shaped circular ingot. Two marks “II” on this piece could indicate it had a value of two Asses, or one Dupondius. Some Roman two As (pound or Libra) scale weights use a similar symbol – II. Two As weights in the British Museum and from Munich are pictured below. Similar shaped bronze pieces are shown in Garrucci, Table III. His description is below. Several books show inscriptions on cast bronze. Some bronze pieces with inscriptions from my collection are shown below.</p><p>559.0 grams</p><p>67x65x31 mm.</p><p>Good VF, RRRR</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125895[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Aes Rude / bars with marks clockwise: crescent &amp; <b>+</b> (centering mark), <b>+</b> (no centering mark), II</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125896[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture shows an Aes Rude, 30 grams, with crescent and <b>+ (</b>note the centering dot) from Garrucci Table LXVII. My aes rude pieces have +/C and +.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125897[/ATTACH]</p><p>Aes Signatum fragment with incuse symbol, C or crescent moon; 22.39 grams; 25.29 X 23.36 X 6.5 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125898[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>Picture of 1st century Roman scale weights from British Museum. The one on the right used the symbol II for 2 #.</p><p><br /></p><p>rrdenarius Cast Bronze Collection, 6/1/2020</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125901[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see more details on my blog - </p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Post something you have that is unpublished. This Countermarked Aes Formatum, Dupondius is not unpublished now![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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