brm_663587 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Sextans coulé
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Type : Sextans coulé
Date: c. 225-217 AC.
Mint name / Town : Rome ou Italie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 37,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 45,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, un peu mou avec les traces de pennons de coulée. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de la BPN (Y. Cellard) en 1975 et de la collection Thierry de Craeker
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de Mercure à gauche, coiffée du pétase ; derrière, deux globules posés verticalement.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Proue (rostre) de galère à droite ; deux globules posés horizontalement à l’exergue.
Commentary
Monnayage coulé. Poids lourd. Dans son inventaire, Haeberlin avait recensé 208 exemplaires. Italo Vecchi a relevé des poids compris entre 33,80 et 53,65 grammes.
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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