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Aes Grave Issues
289 -213 bc
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Aes Signatum

Cast Bronze As
The cast bronze coinage replaced the Aes Signatum ingots (1.6 kg) in 289 bc. The original standard As of 320 to 330 g began to decline in weight due to devaluations after 269 b.c., caused by the demands of the Pyrrhic and Punic wars; at the height of the Second Punic War, the As declined to about 40 g (the Sextantal standard). In 213 b.c. the cast coinage was abandoned for struck coinage based on a silver denarius.
   
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