PREFERRED TERM
2243Aes signatum
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
SCOPE NOTE
- Heavy, cast, rectangular ingots, made of highly impure and heavily leaded bronze. They carried variοus designs and were used as official currency by the Roman state during the period between the end of the 4th and the middle of the 3rd c. BCE.
SOURCE
- Amandry, Dhénin, Popoff, Thierry, & Vellet 2002
- Florenzano 2000
CONTRIBUTOR
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
CREATOR
- Iakovidou Athena (AA)
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Aes signatum
Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/2243
