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Excerpt from Aes Signatum The literary tradition in regard to the first issue of money by the Romans has unmistakably been a controlling inuence over those who have associated these bars with the monetary system of Rome, whether they have held them to be examples of the early aes signatum or an echo of that enigmatical coinage issued in later times. For if we take into consideration how recalcitrant the bars have proved at every attempt to account for types and fix the monetary function of those varieties that plainly belong to a late period when Rome was issuing coins properly so called, we are almost compelled to conclude that without being preju diced by the literary tradition no numismatist would have thought of re garding them as money, much less as coins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.