What was the first roman coin?

Answer 1

The earliest Roman currency was not actually a coin. It was the aes rude (rough bronze). These were irregularly shaped pieces of bronze which needed to be weighed each time.

Toward the end of the 4th century BC the Romans used the aes signatum (signed bronze), flat bronze bars which were heavily leaded, had different weights and a design on one sides and later on both sides.

Coinage had been spread around the Mediterranean by the Greeks. In the early 3rccentury, with Rome's increased contact with the rest of the Mediterranean the Romans adopted a coinage system, the aes grave (heavy bronze). These were heavy cast leaded bronze coins and were rather crude. The standard was the as. There were other coins which were fractions of one as: theSemis

, Quincunx, Triens, Quadrans, Sextans, Uncia and Semuncia. Later in that century nine more coins were introduced.

Answer 2

Coins have been found in the area where ancient Phoenicia was, that were stone circles about the size of a large bead, and they had a hole in the middle, kind of like a donut.