
Early Coinage to 218 BCE
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Over a few hundred years, as the Roman Republic evolved from small town to small empire, its monetary system evolved from weighed bronze lumps (Aes Rude) to a bi-metallic, struck coinage. This album captures that period of intense development. By the early third century BCE, Rome began producing currency bars (Aes Signatum) which circulated as bullion, and heavy cast bronze coins (Aes Grave) which were subsequently issued in various series from circa 280 to 215 BCE. While the mint of Rome produced Aes Grave and Currency Bars, Italo-Greek cities to the south struck the first silver Didrachms and related bronze coins bearing the legend “ROMANO.” The Didrachm coinage was issued infrequently until circa 240 BCE, when the ROMANO inscriptions were replaced with ROMA and Didrachm production increased. Perhaps with the influx of silver from the Carthaginian’s indemnity following the First Punic War, Rome introduced the large issue of Quadrigati circa 225 BCE, though Quadrigatus production would eventually decentralize when the Second Punic War ensued.
26 files, last one added on Nov 24, 2020
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Crawford 409/1, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Plaetorius Cestianus, AR Denarius21 viewsCarausiusJan 16, 2021
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Crawford 494/39, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, L. Mussidius Longus, AR Denarius 25 viewsCarausiusJan 09, 2021
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Crawford 507/2, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, Brutus with Casca Longus, Plated (Fourree) Denarius21 viewsCarausiusDec 26, 2020
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Crawford 464/2, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, T. Carisius, AR Denarius28 viewsCarausiusDec 18, 2020
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Crawford 405/2, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Plaetorius Cestianus, AR Denarius24 viewsCarausiusDec 11, 2020
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Crawford 477/1, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, Sextus Pompey, AR Denarius24 viewsCarausiusDec 10, 2020
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Crawford 447/1, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, Pompey the Great, AR Denarius29 viewsCarausiusDec 10, 2020
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Crawford 266/2, ROMAN REPUBLIC, C. Cassius Longinus, AE Dodrans30 viewsCarausiusDec 06, 2020
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Crawford 34/1, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Anonymous, AR Didrachm-Quadrigatus17 viewsCarausiusNov 24, 2020
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Crawford 217/1, ROMAN REPUBLIC, C. Terentius Lucanus, AR Denarius11 viewsCarausiusNov 24, 2020
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Crawford 245/3, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Marcius, AE Quadrans6 viewsCarausiusNov 24, 2020
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Crawford 251/2, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Fabrinius, AE Triens4 viewsCarausiusNov 24, 2020
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Crawford 251/2, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Fabrinius, AE Triens4 viewsCarausius
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Crawford 343/2, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Porcius Cato, AR Quinarius30 viewsCarausius
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Crawford 041/9, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Post Semilibral AE Sextans OVER-STRUCK on Semilibral AE Uncia19 viewsCarausius
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