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- Issuing cities
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Aes grave (heavy bronze) is a term in numismatics indicating bronze cast coins used in central Italy during the 3rd century BC, whose value was generally indicated by signs: I for the as, S for semis and pellets for unciae. Standard weights for the as were 272, 327, or 341 grams, depending upon the issuing authority.[1]The main Roman cast coins had these marks and images: Image | value | mark |
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Ianus | As | I | Iupiter | Semis | S | Minerva | Triens | four pellets | Hercules | Quadrans | three pellets | Mercury | Sextans | two pellets | Bellona or Roma | Uncia | one pellet |
Issuing cities Main series were from Rome, Ariminum (Rimini), Iguvium (Gubbio), Tuder (Todi), Ausculum (Ascoli Satriano), Firmum (Fermo), Hatria - Hadria (Atri), Luceria (Lucera), and Latin central Italy. Other series have unknown provenance. Gallery See also- Roman Republican coinage
- Aes rude
- Aes signatum
References1. ^{{cite book|author=Michael H. Crawford|title=Roman Republican Coinage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htS7kPUyfzcC&pg=RA1-PA760|year=1974|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-07492-6|pages=1–}}
Further reading - Haeberlin, Ernst: Aes Grave, Das Schwergeld Roms und Mittelitaliens einschließlich der ihm vorausgehenden Rohbronzewährung, Halle 1910.
- Head, Barclay V.: Historia Nummorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatic, London, 19112.
- Sear, David: "Roman Coins and Their Values," Volume I, Spink.
- Sydenham, Edward A.: Aes Grave A Study of the Cast Coinages of Rome and Central Italy. London, Spink, 1926.
- Italo Vecchi. Italian Cast Coinage. A descriptive catalogue of the cast coinage of Rome and Italy. London Ancient Coins, London 2013. Hard bound in quarto format, 84 pages, 90 plates. {{ISBN|978-0-9575784-0-1}}
External links {{commons|Aes Grave}}- Digital Historia Nummorum
- Cast Greek & Roman Coins
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/296457 The Aes Grave of Central Italy by J. G. Milne]
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