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Aes Formatum Crescent
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| Year | 400 BC - 201 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 201 BC) |
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Aes formatum — uncoined bronze in shaped, pre-weighed lumps — preceded Rome's formal coinage system and functioned as commodity money measured by the libra. The crescent form is among the more enigmatic of the attested shapes; whether the specific geometry carried symbolic weight or simply reflected a convenient casting mold remains unresolved in the literature.
No mint authority struck these. Value was settled by the scale, not the stamp.