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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2766002, member: 75525"]Nice coins. I do not have an Imperial one of these.</p><p>Romans used bronze as a medium of exchange before they minted coins. The top pic is my puppy quadrans and an aes rude piece that weighs about a quarter of a Roman pound. Initially the Roman As = 324 grams. Inflation dropped this weight and by the time these were struck, they were fiat money => worth a quarter of an As because the government said so! </p><p> [ATTACH=full]636908[/ATTACH] </p><p>About 225 BC, the Romans started showing Hercules on the obverse of quadrans. This held until Imperial times. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]636909[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin below is a struck quadrans. It has 4 dots on the reverse, oops.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]636914[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]636915[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2766002, member: 75525"]Nice coins. I do not have an Imperial one of these. Romans used bronze as a medium of exchange before they minted coins. The top pic is my puppy quadrans and an aes rude piece that weighs about a quarter of a Roman pound. Initially the Roman As = 324 grams. Inflation dropped this weight and by the time these were struck, they were fiat money => worth a quarter of an As because the government said so! [ATTACH=full]636908[/ATTACH] About 225 BC, the Romans started showing Hercules on the obverse of quadrans. This held until Imperial times. [ATTACH=full]636909[/ATTACH] The coin below is a struck quadrans. It has 4 dots on the reverse, oops. [ATTACH=full]636914[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]636915[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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