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 |
Contents |
[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
- Roman Republican coinage
- Aes rude
- Aes signatum
[edit] Coins
As (ca. 240-225 BC) |
Triens (ca. 241-235 BC |
Quadrans (ca. 230-226 BC. wheigt 63.19 g |
|
Sextans (ca. 289-245 BC) |
Quincunx(After 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
[edit] External links
- Digital Historia Nummorum
- [http://dougsmith.ancients.info/feac56cas.html Cast Greek & Roman Coins
- The Aes Grave of Central Italy by J. G. Milne