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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4523896, member: 51347"]They be awesome to hold:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120751[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the casting gate where the runner was broken off:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120756[/ATTACH]</p><p>Aes Grave Sextans Craw 18-5 thickness on edge</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120757[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120758[/ATTACH]</p><p>RR Aes Grave Anon 280-276 BCE Triens 46mm 90.3g 9.3mm thick Tbolt-Dolphin Rome Crawford 14-3 T Vecchi 3</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is when the Italians / Romans were actually using cast Bronze for coinage. I understand that they would bring the Bronze to a molten state, then pour it into vats of water. That would had been fun to watch!</p><p><br /></p><p>In my view, the spheroid finish on this Aes Rude looks like the result of that process.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120759[/ATTACH]</p><p>Italia Aes Rude - bronze ca 5th-4th Century BCE 29.7mm 32.4g roughly an uncia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4523896, member: 51347"]They be awesome to hold: [ATTACH=full]1120751[/ATTACH] Here is the casting gate where the runner was broken off: [ATTACH=full]1120756[/ATTACH] Aes Grave Sextans Craw 18-5 thickness on edge [ATTACH=full]1120757[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1120758[/ATTACH] RR Aes Grave Anon 280-276 BCE Triens 46mm 90.3g 9.3mm thick Tbolt-Dolphin Rome Crawford 14-3 T Vecchi 3 This is when the Italians / Romans were actually using cast Bronze for coinage. I understand that they would bring the Bronze to a molten state, then pour it into vats of water. That would had been fun to watch! In my view, the spheroid finish on this Aes Rude looks like the result of that process. [ATTACH=full]1120759[/ATTACH] Italia Aes Rude - bronze ca 5th-4th Century BCE 29.7mm 32.4g roughly an uncia[/QUOTE]
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