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aes rude: Large cast rectangular bronze coin, one of the earliest Roman coins.
alloy: Mixture of more than one metal.
Aes rude, Italian, 17.
Aes signatum, Rome, 17.
Alexandrine issues (i. e. coins bearing the types of the money of Alexander, struck after his death): India, 225, 834; Byzantium, 269; Perinthus, 271; Callatis, 274; Odessus, 276; Mesembria, 278; Thebes, ...
Before the introduction of coinage in Italy the two important forms of value in the economy were cattle (pecus), from which the Latin word for money (pecunia) is derived, and irregularly-shaped pieces of bronze known as aes rude (rough bronze) which ...
Unformed lumps of metal Aes Rude were traded as items of value for centuries. In the Third century BC bronze was cast into rectangular bars of about 5 pounds, Aes Signatum, which were broken into smaller pieces as needed.
the Romans, in common with other Italian peoples, had used as an improvement on the system of barter, large pieces of bronze known as Aes rude and Aes grave.
The Development of Roman Coinage: Irregular lumps of bronze called AES RUDE, were the earliest known common measure of value in central Italy.
The early huge bronze issues are listed and illustrated in Bradbury Thurlow's Italian Cast Coinage, Italian Aes Grave (printed together with Italo Vecchi's Italian Aes Rude, Signatum and the Aes Grave of Sicily).
Stubs: Aes rude, Airman's coin, Banliang, Brockage, Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Central Mint of China, Chinese currency, Cistophorus, Dahlonega Mint, Doubloon, Fed Shreds, Flying Eagle cent, Gold Coinage Act, Napoleon (coin), Pattern coin, Star note, ...
They may not even have been regarded as coins, although, as Haeberlin has pointed out, their types suggest a correspondence with the regular series of coins. They may have been meant for all those purposes which the obsolete aes rude had served, ...
However, the form which this currency took over a period of many years was shapeless lumps of metal (aes rude) of widely varying weight and with no official stamp of guarantee.
 See also: Silver, Mint, Bronze, Coinage, Coin
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