Aes rude
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Aes rude was a nugget of bronze used as a sort of proto-currency in ancient Italy prior to the use of minted coins made from precious metals.
Bronze aes rude from 5th-4th century BC, Italy
Attic weight
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Attic weight, or the Attic standard, also known as Euboic standard, was one of the main monetary standards in ancient Greece. As a result of its use in the coinage of the Athenian empire and the empir
Aes rude
…millennium BC) was based on a bronze standard (unlike the silver standards in use in contemporary Greece, the Aeginetan standard and its competitor the Attic standard). Consequently, crudely worked lumps of bronze were used as both primitive ingots and as primitive coins, facilitating trade across the peninsula and…
Athenian tetradrachm, minted after 449 BC.
Posthumous tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, minted on the Attic weight at Amphipolis, 315–294 BC.