Talk:Aes grave

Standard weight?
The page states that "Standard weights for the as were 272, 327, or 341 grams"... what weight? because a bronze object that heavy is no longer a coin but an ingot, which does not fit with the pictures shown. I mean, the as coin certainly does not look like it weighs a pound, or even half a pound. --Svartalf (talk) 16:18, 2 June 2012 (UTC)


 * They were aes (i.e. bronze) coins, weighting an as (i.e. pound). The standard weight depends from the as-weight in use by the community that produced these coins. The pictures you see are of the As (Roman coin) (File:Vecchi 051.jpg, 259.53 g), and of different fractions. They were cast (not minted) for the reason they were to heavy to be struck. --Carlo Morino aka zi' Carlo 08:07, 4 June 2012 (UTC)