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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2567106, member: 75525&quot;]I have a longer description of cast money (and pre-money) here:</p><p><a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2015/12/aes-money-from-republican-rome-and.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2015/12/aes-money-from-republican-rome-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2015/12/aes-money-from-republican-rome-and.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Romans in 650 - 400 BC (when Greek cities and colonies started minting coins) did not have a source of precious metals (mines or trade). They were a subsistence farming community that had a volunteer army for protection and to obtain supplies when times were bad. They did not pay their army until the 10 year siege of Veii, 405 - 396 BC. They did not start minting silver coins until the first Punic war, 264 - 241 BC. As Rome expanded they obtained gold and silver from spoils, tribute and captured mines to pay for a standing army (their Legions). </p><p>I have no way of knowing if the Aes Rude I buy are real or just good fakes. I have researched the subject in books and on line. I buy from sources I trust. I do not think there was a difference in crude bronze lumps that bronze age societies used and the Aes Rude called Roman (and Central Italian) pre-money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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