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Bronze Gaming Counter
- Thread starter Youngted
- Start date
Brian,that certainly is a nice find for sure,almost certain a gaming item but still scratching my head how you would play with it with 2 numbers missing ?? prehaps the other numbers could have been on a similar item and thrown from say the hand or from a container.Could understand if it had the other 2 numbers on the item but this one is a bit of a mystery.
I have since found this info on the net. It would seem that I have a TALUS and four would be in use.
Pausanias stated that ancient Greeks played dice since the Trojan War. Tessera had numbers on each side from 1 to 6. In Roman times and later, values placed on opposite sides add up to seven. Talus had only four numbered sides: 1, 3, 4, 6. The best throw was venus: all four tali fall to expose different numbers; the worse throw was canis when all exposed numbers are the same.
Pausanias stated that ancient Greeks played dice since the Trojan War. Tessera had numbers on each side from 1 to 6. In Roman times and later, values placed on opposite sides add up to seven. Talus had only four numbered sides: 1, 3, 4, 6. The best throw was venus: all four tali fall to expose different numbers; the worse throw was canis when all exposed numbers are the same.
Stoof-tabsallday
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Very cool. Awesome piece of history!!