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Interesting. What was it used for?
It kinda looks like a blobby casting error… Of course if it were manually cast I dunno why it’d be haphazardly stamped a bunch of times- that feels like what you’d see on an automated production line where something has gone wrong, rather than manual production
They made them look like this on purpose. Silver was too expensive for daily trade, so they minted weird shaped money with cheap metal to be used as credit tokens. [source]
https://laralfabian.com/2015/07/24/odd-bronzes-of-the-golden-age/
