
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.
28 files, last one added on Feb 21, 2021
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Last additions - Carausius's Gallery |

Crawford 041/5, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Anonymous Post-Semilibral, AE As (Struck)11 viewsCarausiusFeb 28, 2021
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Crawford 407/2, ROMAN REPUBLIC, C. Hosidius C. f. Geta, AR Denarius15 viewsCarausiusFeb 21, 2021
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Crawford 26/4, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Anonymous, AE Half Litra7 viewsCarausiusFeb 21, 2021
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Crawford 26/4, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Anonymous, AE Half Litra9 viewsCarausiusFeb 21, 2021
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Crawford 27/3, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Anonymous, AE Double Litra5 viewsCarausiusFeb 21, 2021
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Crawford 145/1, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Victory & Spearhead Series, AE As11 viewsCarausiusFeb 21, 2021
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Crawford 504/1, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, Brutus and C. Flavius Hemicillus, AR Denarius10 viewsCarausiusFeb 21, 2021
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Crawford 362/1, ROMAN REPUBLIC, C. Mamilius Limetanus, AR Denarius12 viewsCarausiusFeb 19, 2021
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Crawford 409/1, ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Plaetorius Cestianus, AR Denarius36 viewsCarausiusJan 16, 2021
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Crawford 494/39, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, L. Mussidius Longus, AR Denarius 47 viewsCarausiusJan 09, 2021
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Crawford 507/2, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, Brutus with Casca Longus, Plated (Fourree) Denarius29 viewsCarausiusDec 26, 2020
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Crawford 464/2, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, T. Carisius, AR Denarius43 viewsCarausiusDec 18, 2020
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Crawford 455/1, ROMAN IMPERATORIAL, Restio AR Denarius45 viewsCarausius
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Crawford 26/4, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Anonymous, AE Half Litra9 viewsCarausius
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Crawford 428/3, ROMAN REPUBLIC, Q. Cassius Longinus, AR Denarius41 viewsCarausius
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