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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3788570, member: 90666&quot;]Continuing: Series: aes signatum and ramo secco bars</p><p><br /></p><p>- The ramo secco bar is ex the collection of Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, a British archaeologist, paleolinguist and Conservative peer noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites. The name derives from the design of a &#039;dry branch&#039;. Such bars are found principally in northern central Italy. An early date is suggested by the discovery of one piece in a stratum of an excavation near Gela in Sicily which has been dated by the pottery finds to the 6th century BC [Gene McPherson, see his blog here: <a href="https://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2016/12/ramo-secco-bar.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2016/12/ramo-secco-bar.html" rel="nofollow">https://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2016/12/ramo-secco-bar.html</a> ]</p><p>- the bull-bull bar isn&#039;t in as good condition as I&#039;d like but is solid bronze despite it&#039;s fragile looking surfaces. It&#039;s difficult to find even decent fragments of RRC 3 to RRC 12 bars. They were, surprisingly, made at same time as the round aes grave through the 3rd century BC, and are not earlier despite their different form. Perhaps they had symbolic uses e.g. as donatives or end of service payments to soldiers, but as fragments are often found in aes grave context, they were clearly broken into spendable lumps.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1011775[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1011776[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ramo Secco Quincussis Obv and Rev: Ramo Secco dried leaf pattern. Provenance: Baldwin’s 99 (4 May 2016) lot 591 Collection of Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, ex Spink 23rd December 1955 (£75) with ticket ex Spink 1930 (£12) with ticket, found Chiusi, Etruria before 1930, possibly ex Chiusi 19th c. finds cited by Haeberlin</p><p>Crawford 5/1 Quincussis Obv: Bull right Rev: Bull left. Provenance: ROMA X (27 Sep.2015) lot 638 with old retail receipt[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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