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Enigmatic Premonetary Bronze
Lot # 186
Aes Premonetale. Aes Formatum. Torque-with-pendant (or buckle) shaped item. Latium, 6th-4th century BC. AE. 100.00 g. RR. mm. 57x42x13. Very rare and apparently unpublished. Lovely untouched earthen light green patina. About EF. For bronze objects found with aes rude and early bars, see ICC p.83 ff. and A. M. Murgan, “Heavy metal in hallowed contexts. Continuity and change in aes deposits in Central Italy and Sicily” in “Embodying Value? The Transformation of Objects in and from the Ancient World”, BAR International Series 2592, 2014.