- Aes grave
Aes grave (heavy bronze) is a numismatical term indicating bronze cast coins used in central Italy during the 4th and 5th centuries BC.
The value was 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.
The main Roman cast coins had these marks and
Issuing cities
Main series were from
Rome , Ariminum (Rimini ), Iguvium (Gubbio ), Tuder (Todi ), Ausculum (Ascoli Piceno ), Firmum (Fermo ), Hatria - Hadria (Atri), Luceria (Lucera ), andLatins . Other series have unknown provenance.ee also
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Roman Republican coinage
*Aes rude
*Aes signatum Coins
Literature
*
Ernst Haeberlin : "Aes Grave, Das Schwergeld Roms und Mittelitaliens einschließlich der ihm vorausgehenden Rohbronzewährung", Halle 1910
* Sydenham, Edward A.: "Aes Grave A Study of the Cast Coinages of Rome and Central Italy". London, Spink, 1926
* Head Barclay V. "Historia Nummorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatic", London, 19112
* Thurlow-Vecchi (1979). "Italian Cast Coinage, Italian Aes Grave" by Bradbury K. Thurlow and "Italian Aes Rude, Signatum and the Aes Grave of Sicily" by Italo G. Vecchi, printed together by V.C. Vecchi & Sons ISBN 0-9506836-0-4External links
* [http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/index.html Digital Historia Nummorum]
* [http://dougsmith.ancients.info/feac56cas.html Cast Greek & Roman Coins]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4358(1942)32%3C27%3ATAGOCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U The Aes Grave of Central Italy by J. G. Milne]
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