My sense has been that unciae are popular as small votives and out number other denominations among the finds, but I hadn’t actually quantified this until today:
The surprise for me here is the relative popularity of the Triens over the Semis and the Quadrans.
This chart was drawn from the counts reported in Crawford’s 1983 catalogue.
And do you know what?! I thought I still needed to do the same with Vicarello BUT NO I’d already done all that work at least by denomination in a previous blog post! I wasn’t just shooting from my hip I actually had found data to back me up on this previously.
In that previous post I asked:
“Does the lower count of semisses and quadrantes as compared to asses and trientes, suggest there were fewer of these denominations in people’s purses? likewise fewer circulating semunciae than uncia? “
I am leaning towards yes as the answer after seeing the Nemi material.
I guess if I want to do it right I should look for series variation to see if 14/18 behave differently than the later ones.
If anything though my immediate take away is that it is surprising how many more large denomination specimens are actually present at Nemi.
Ok. I did it.
And it is v weird indeed. There was far more Italic (non-Roman) material than I thought and that took the most time to sort by type. Most are all are from unidentified ‘mints’.
What is even weirder is how RRC 24, 25, 26 are completely missing:
AND RRC 14 dominates by a vast margin.
What does it MEAN? I can’t tell you yet, but it sure is interesting.
And then we have this weird line:
“Missing in the cited tables: Quinquessis (5 as piece): Tripod / Amphora”
Is this an otherwise unknown currency bar?! Super strange and tantalizing.
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
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