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brm_565668 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Quadrans coulé

ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Quadrans coulé VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Quadrans coulé
Date: c. 280-269 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rome ou Italie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 77,40 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, identifiable. Patine verte granuleuse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sanglier bondissant à gauche ; au-dessous, trois globules.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier bondissant à droite ; au-dessous, trois globules.

Commentary


Exemplaire de bon poids. Monnaie de la République coulée.

Historical background


ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS

(3rd century BC)

Initially, the bronze coinage is cast. The as, unit of bronze which corresponds to 12 ounces weighs approximately 325 g around 250 BC before the end of the first Punic war (268-241 AC.). This stallion became semi-liberal around 220 BC at the start of the Second Punic War (221-202 AC.), the ace only weighed around 150 g. Smaller divisions, uncia, semuncia, quartuncia are now struck instead of cast. The weight alone is not enough to classify the series, the diameter also comes into play. Quickly between 225 and 200 the standard will go from liberal to sextental, that is to say from 325 g to 54 g in the face of the most serious political and economic crisis that the Republic has known since its foundation. From 213 BC, if the as is still cast, the other divisions from the sextans to the semuncia are struck.

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