A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 32
ece, was not possiblewithout a superior coinage of gold or silverto secure its value. A typical series of the Roman heavybronze money is exhibited (No. 38 ; fig. 14)The system is based on the pound of twelveounces, and the denominations of the variouspieces are distinguished by the heads orobverse… … In,. 13.—Aes Signatum(No. 37). 1:3.
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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