1 As Legend on obverse

Hatria — modern Atri in the Abruzzo — was an Italic town whose bronze coinage belongs to the earliest phase of central Italian cast aes grave production. These massive cast pieces predate Rome's dominance of the region and reflect a monetary tradition independent of Roman influence, though the chronological overlap with the early Roman Republic is unavoidable. At over 400 grams, this is not a coin that changed hands casually.

The Haeberlin corpus, published in 1910, remains the foundational reference for aes grave; his page 204 attribution places this piece within a small, well-documented group from Hatria with no significant die variety disputes in the subsequent literature.