Catalog
1 As
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Bridled head of a horse facing left, rendered in bold relief with clearly delineated bridle straps and mane locks indicated by incised parallel lines along the neck and poll. The design is characteristic of Central Italic aes grave coinage of the third century BC, executed in the cast bronze tradition with a plain, unadorned field. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (301 BC - 201 BC) |
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Aes grave — cast rather than struck — places this piece within the transitional monetary landscape of pre-Roman central Italy, where multiple autonomous minting authorities were producing heavy bronze currency before Rome's eventual consolidation of the region. At 357 grams, this falls within the expected range for a full libral or sub-libral as, depending on which local standard was in force at the time of casting. The attribution to an uncertain central Italian city reflects a genuine gap in scholarship: the ICC and Haeberlin classifications group several iconographically related pieces whose civic origins remain unresolved despite over a century of study.
Syd#124 cross-references suggest proximity to issues from the Umbrian or Samnite sphere, though no consensus has formed.