1st-2nd century AD. A rectangular bronze stamp with raised legend in reverse 'FELIC'; integral loop on reverse with expending hoop and flat ellipsoidal face. For similar stamps, see Dressel, H., ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum XV: Instrumentum Domesticum, (Berolini, 1891, 1899); Buoncuore, M., 'Signacula nel Museo Profano della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana,' in Epigraphica 46, 1984, 158-67; and Manacorda, D., 'Appunti sulla bollatura in età romana,' in The Inscribed Economy, ed. Harris, W. V., (Ann Arbor, 1993) 37-54. 92 grams, 63mm (2 1/2"). From a private German collection, pre 2000. During the Roman era, bakeries were required to stamp their bread with an individual seal in order to trace the source of the loaves and to prevent fraud or theft of imperial supplies.