Aes grave

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Aes grave (heavy bronze) is a term in numismatics indicating bronze cast coins used in central Italy during the 4th and 5th centuries BC, whose value was generally indicated by signs: I for the as, S for semis and pellets for unciae. Standard weights for the as were 272, 327, or 341 grams, depending upon the issuing authority.

The main Roman cast coins had these marks and images:

Image value mark
Ianus As I
Iupiter Semis S
Minerva Triens four pellets
Hercules Quadrans three pellets
Mercury Sextans two pellets
Bellona or Roma Uncia one pellet


Issuing cities

Main series were from Rome, Ariminum (Rimini), Iguvium (Gubbio), Tuder (Todi), Ausculum (Ascoli Piceno), Firmum (Fermo), Hatria - Hadria (Atri), Luceria (Lucera), and Latins. Other series have unknown provenance.

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See also

Further reading

  • Haeberlin, Ernst: Aes Grave, Das Schwergeld Roms und Mittelitaliens einschließlich der ihm vorausgehenden Rohbronzewährung, Halle 1910.
  • Head, Barclay V.: Historia Nummorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatic, London, 19112.
  • Sear, David: "Roman Coins and Their Values," Volume I, Spink.
  • Sydenham, Edward A.: Aes Grave A Study of the Cast Coinages of Rome and Central Italy. London, Spink, 1926.
  • Thurlow-Vecchi (1979). Italian Cast Coinage, Italian Aes Grave by Bradbury K. Thurlow and Italian Aes Rude, Signatum and the Aes Grave of Sicily by Italo G. Vecchi, printed together by V.C. Vecchi & Sons. ISBN 0-9506836-0-4.
  • Zander H. Klawans: Reading and Dating Roman Imperial Coins, Racine, Wisconsin 1959.

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