Roman Silver Ingot

Roman Silver Ingot

We sometimes do limited runs of Roman Silver hallmark bars. Each one has its own unique weight, which is hand struck into the bar.

Scottsdale Mint presents The Roman Silver Ingot .999 Fine Silver Denarius Eagle Hallmark with Unique Serial Numbers. Limited Mintage, No Two Bars Alike.

Currency of an Empire

For the Roman Empire, conquest was party fueled by the resources of Gold, Silver, and base metals required for their armies and infrastructure. As the empire grew, so did the need for these metals. The many mines they controlled commonly produced rough ingots of varying sizes, each bearing the hallmark of their respective mints. The ingots were transported to minting facilities where they were melted and turned into coinage and circulated as the currency of the empire.

Today you can also own a pure investment of wealth in .999 Fine Silver Bar format produced in a similar rough fashion of a time long ago. We simply call it: ROMAN SILVER . These aren't rounded bars like those of the modern era, but purposely crafted in the spirit of the Romans.

Each ingot of solid silver has an exact unique weight to 2 decimal places/troy ounce. A limited mintage of units will be produced with the the MMXV year and each bar features markings similar to the time of emperor Vespasian's reign from 69-79AD.  Shapes and sizes will vary. No two pieces are alike.

On the reverse, the hallmark "Made by Scottsdale Mint" makes the bars ISO-9001-2008 certified and approved for IRAs accounts as well.

Full Story and Historical Context

The abundance of mineral resources in the British Isles was probably one of the reasons for the Roman conquest of Britain. As Rome pushed into Britannia they used advanced technology to find, develop and extract valuable minerals on a scale unequaled until the Middle ages. The Roman economy was based on silver, as the majority of coins were minted from the precious metal. Rome's imperial economy had no other major basis than precious metals, since it had no agricultural surplus or man-made goods to trade outside the empire. The Silver Denarius coin and the Gold Aureus (solidus) coin were in fact Rome's only true export.

The mines of Mendip Hills, Somerset (Britain) produced the majority of the Silver used to make the Denarius Silver Coins for Rome from 47AD onward. Silver and gold were mined under direct imperial control providing both money and power. During the reign of Caesar Vespasian Augustus, the Silver ingots were produced in varying weights and stamped with IMP VESPASIAN AVG and then transported off to be produced into Denarius coins.

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