Aes grave

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Aes grave (heavy bronze) is a numismatical term indicating bronze cast coins used in Central Italy during IV and III century BC from Italic populations.

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 gramms, depending from issuing auctority.

Roman main cast coins had this marks and images:

Image	value	mark
Ianus	As	I
Saturn	Semis	S
Minerva	Triens	four pellets
Hercules	Quadrans	three pellets
Mercury	Sextans	two pellets
Bellona	Uncia	one pellet

1 Issuing cities
2 See also
- 2.1 Coins
3 Literature
4 External links

[edit] Issuing cities

Main series were from Rome, Ariminum (Rimini), Iguvium (Gubbio), Tuder (Todi), Ausculum (Ascoli Piceno), Firmum (Fermo), Hatria - Hadria (Atri), Luceria (Lucera), and Latins. Other series have unknown provenience.

[edit] See also

[edit] Coins

As (ca. 240-225 BC)	Semis	Triens (ca. 241-235 BC	Quadrans (ca. 230-226 BC. wheigt 63.19 g Thurlow-Vecchi 26; Crawford 27/8)
Sextans (ca. 289-245 BC)	Quincunx(After 220 BC)	Teruncius (Apulia, Luceria. Circa 220 BC]]	Uncia (ca. 275-270 BC)

[edit] 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 0-9506836-0-4