1 Quadrans

Aes grave coinage of this type was cast rather than struck, placing it among the most archaic monetary forms still in use during the Second Punic War period. The attribution to an uncertain Central Italian city reflects how fragmentary the archaeological record remains for smaller Latin and Oscan communities operating mints in the third century BC — many issued bronze on the Roman libral standard without leaving sufficient written or material evidence to confirm civic identity with confidence.

At this weight, it originally represented one quarter of an as on the heavy libral standard before systematic reductions made such massive cast pieces obsolete within a generation.