Aes grave ("heavy bronze") is a term innumismatics indicating bronze cast coins used in central Italy during the 3rd century BC, whose value was generally indicated by signs:I for the as,S forsemis and pellets forunciae. Standard weights for the as were 272, 327, or 341 grams, depending upon the issuing authority.^[1]

The main Roman cast coins had these marks and images:

Main series were fromRome, Ariminum (Rimini), Iguvium (Gubbio), Tuder (Todi), Ausculum (Ascoli Satriano), Firmum (Fermo), Hatria - Hadria (Atri), Luceria (Lucera), andLatin central Italy. Other series have unknown provenance.

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  As (c. 235 BC)
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  Semis
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  Triens (c. 241–235 BC)
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  Quadrans (c. 230–226 BC. weight 63.19 g
  Vecchi 61; Crawford 27/8)
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  Sextans (c. 289–245 BC)
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  Quincunx (coin) (after 220 BC)
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  Teruncius (Apulia,Luceria.c. 220 BC)
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  Uncia (coin) (c. 275–270 BC)

• Roman Republican coinage
• Aes rude
• Aes signatum

• 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.
• Italo Vecchi.Italian Cast Coinage. A descriptive catalogue of the cast coinage of Rome and Italy. London Ancient Coins, London 2013. Hard bound in quarto format, 84 pages, 90 plates.ISBN 978-0-9575784-0-1

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