I have an xls list of several thousand
tesserae, round, square, oblong, triangular etc,
and although I have several with the shell on the
reverse and others with the
head of
Silenus or similar on the
obverse (e.g. Scholz 597-598, blank
reverse), I didn't have
anything that combined the two.
(I also added a
tessera page to
wildwinds, with lead and AE
tesserae, some
seals etc).
The problem with
tesserae and other lead tokens is / was that they were so simple to melt
down at
home and make your own, e.g. as a personal IOU with your initials on it, as an "I owe you a meal" token, as entry tokens to family celebrations etc.
I
still haven't added all the
tesserae I have found, to the xls file because I
had other
work to do,
but I added this one to the list in any case.
