As (coin)

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• The As (plural Asses) was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, named after the homonymous weight unit (12 unciae = ounces), but not immune to weight depreciation.

Contents 1 Photographs 1.1 Republic 1.2 Imperial coins 2 Drawings

[edit] Photographs

[edit] Republic

• Cast coins

Circa 240-225 BC Aes Grave. 259.53 g

• Struck coins

[edit] Imperial coins

Sestertius (bronze), Dupondius (bronze), As (copper)	Aelia Flaccilla	Caligula	Claudius
Elagabalus	Flavius Victor	Galba	Galla Placidia
Germanicus	Hadrian	Hadrian	Julia Maesa
Libius Severus	Majorian	Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa	Nero
Vespasian	Traianus as with 2 obverses	Licinius

[edit] Drawings

Roman republican As