brm_354645 - ROMAN REPUBLIC - ANONYMOUS Triens frappé
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Triens frappé
Date: après 211 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Belle tête de Rome. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine verte légèrement granuleuse
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Cet exemplaire provient de la collection MG
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome ou de Minerve à droite, coiffée du casque corinthien à cimier et triple aigrette ; au-dessus de la tête, quatre globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA.
Reverse description : Proue de galère à droite (rostre) ; au-dessous, quatre globules.
Commentary
Poids léger. Michael Crawford signale 63 exemplaires pour ce type.
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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