• 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...
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    ingots, the aes signatum, which, in turn, was the precursor of the first Roman true coinage, the aes grave. The earliest surviving piece of aes rude dates...
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    been made at any foundry facility. Herbert A. GrĂ¼ber (1910). Aes Rude, Aes Signatum, Aes Grave, and Coinage of Rome from B.C. 268. Glowes. Jane DeRose Evans...
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    usage of Greek coins, first by bronze ingots, then by disks known as the aes rude. The system thus named as was introduced in ca. 280 BC as a large cast...
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    bars of varying weights as currency. An aes grave ("heavy bronze") weighed one pound. One twelfth of an aes grave was called an uncia, or in English, an...
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    (1910). Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum: Aes rude, aes signatum, aes grave, and coinage of Rome from B.C. 268. British Museum. Department...
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  • cast leaded bronze coinage was introduced; these issues are known as aes grave (heavy bronze) by numismatists. Stylistically the coins were distinctly...
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    collection and produced a monograph on the ancient coins preserved there, the Aes grave del Museo Kircheriano. When Rome was conquered in 1870 and became the...
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    Etruscan areas, these had been made of aes grave, an unrefined metal with a high iron content. Along with the aes signatum, the Roman state also issued...
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  • word liberal. The libral standard began with the era of the so-called aes grave (heavy bronze) cast coinage of Rome, from circa 280 BC, where one as weighed...
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