Polished marble counters / tokens / calculi
1.5€ marbre blanc ou 1€ en marbre gris
These objects were very common throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
They were used for games, for accounting and for any other activity requiring counters.
“Calculi” is the Roman name: it is the literal Latin for “pebbles”.
It gave French both arithmetical “calcul” (calculation) and renal “calcul” (kidney stone).
The models shown here are in marble.
Diameter 15 to 20 mm, thickness 5 to 8 mm
- Materials
- Marbre
- Periods
- Antiquity, Merovingians and Carolingians, Middle Ages, French Revolution, Vikings, 12th-13th centuries (Crusades), Hundred Years' War and 15th century, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, Modern era