Sunday, August 25, 2013

Small Cast Coins, Pieces of a Cast Bar and Cast Knuckle-Bones



Items from Left to right, top to bottom -
  • bronze conch shell (Siglos?)- Central Italy, VI - IV century BC, 5.1 grams, cast bronze, 18.6 X 18.8 X13.5 mm
  • Aes Grave Sextans - Umbria, 225 BC, 17.4 grams, cast bronze, 24.4 X 19.1 X 10.2 mm; T&V 172; Sydenham, Aes Grave 249; CRR 143d; HNI 54; Haberline plate 81, 39; obverse - club, reverse - two dots, this is the lightest example of 29 I found on the internet and in books. This type is listed as two weight ranges in Thurow & Vecci, Aes Grave. This piece belongs to T&Vs second and lighter weight group.
  • Aes Grave Quincunex - Apulia, Luceria, 220 BC, cast bronze, 32 grams, 33 mm, T&V 281; BMCRR Italy 35; Sydenham, Aes Grave 138; CRR ; HNI 677a; Hab p 187 - 191. Obverse - X; Reverse - X, 5 dots above, L below
  • Aes Grave Uncia - Apulia, Luceria, 225 BC, cast bronze, 12 grams, 22 mm, T&V 285; Sydenham, Aes Grave 142; HNI 677e; Hab p . Obverse - frog; Reverse - corn ear, 1 dot above, L below
  • Piece of aes grave plate with star - Repubblica Romana. III. a.C. Aes Signatum. Frammento con simbolo stella o fiore. Peso 16,48 gr. RR.
  • Bonze knucklebone gaming piece; Roman, Balkan region, 1st-3rd century AD; Solid cast bronze; 2.3 cm length; Intact, oxidize. This piece is similar to ones from RR times.
    The game of knucklebones had been played since ancient times. Sophocles in a fragment, ascribed the invention of knucklebones to Palamedes, during the Trojan War. It was played with a set of four astragaloi or knucklebones, originally made of real knuckle-bones or tali of sheep and goat, then of ivory or bronze. Each knucklebone had two broad and two narrow sides, upon which it could stand, representing different values (1, 3, 4 and 6). 35 different scores were possible at a single throw, the lowest throw, both in Greece and Rome, was the Dog, the highest in Rome was Venus.
  • Apulia, Luceria. Anonymous, c. 217-212 BC. Æ Aes Grave Biunx. Reduced weight, Luceria. Scallop shell. R/ Astragalus; two pellets above. Thurlow & Vecchi 284; Haeberlin pl. 71, 24-5; HN Italy 677d.
  • Apulia, Luceria. Anonymous, c. 217-212 BC. Æ Aes Grave Biunx (27mm, 17.72g, 3h). Reduced weight, Luceria. Scallop shell. R/ Astragalus; two pellets above. Thurlow & Vecchi 284; Haeberlin pl. 71, 24-5; HN Italy 677d. Near VF
  • Roman Republican. Aes formatum. AE/AG knucklebone. Etruria or Latium, 6th-9th century BC. AE/AG?. g. 59.80 RRR. About EF. Silver alloy? Silvered? Partial green patina. Apparently unpublished.











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