Time of the First Triumvirate. Tessera Nummularia. Dated 24 February 56 BC (Bone, 51.37 x 9.64 mm). Inscription on all four sides: CHILO / MVRRI / SP(pectavit) A(nte) D(iem) VI K(alendas) MAR(tii) / CN COR(elio) L MAR(cio) (Consulibus). Translation: Inspection carried out by Chilo, slave of Murrus, on the sixth day before the Calends of March, in the year of the consulship of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus and Lucius Marcius Philippus. Cf. G.F. Gamurrini, Di una tessera consolare, in "Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità", 1897, pp. 7-8. L'Année épigraphique, Année 1897 (1898), p. 20, n. 53. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. 11, 1901, p. 1222, n. 6728-2. A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones latinae liberae rei publicae, Firenze, 1957-1963, n. 1040. R. Herzog, Nummularius, in "Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft", band XVII.1 (1937), n. 53. P. Calabria, F. Di Jorio, Una tessera nummularia dal Palatino in Roma, in "Numismatica e Archeologia. Monete, stratigrafie e contesti. Dati a confronto", 2018, n. 50. Pierced at the top to be tied to a bag containing coins. Composed of two joined fragments. Very Rare, with around 150 known examples worldwide — each bearing a different inscription. From a British private collection, later passing into a Swiss collection in the early 2000s. It may correspond to the specimen once owned by lawyer Tito Cini of Montevarchi, reportedly discovered in Tuscany (Fiesole) in 1897. That piece later disappeared and was never recorded again — although it is presumed to have been intact. This is a "tessera nummularia", carved from bone, featuring a central perforation that allowed it to be tied directly to a bag of coins. Such objects were not intended for circulation but served as a guarantee of the verification of coins by professional money-changers or assayers (nummularii) in ancient Rome. They often certified the weight, purity, and authenticity of a batch of currency. Tesserae like this represent a rare glimpse into the control mechanisms of Roman financial practices. Their utilitarian nature and material suggest daily use in commercial settings.