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1 Quadrans
| Issuer | Tarquinii |
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| Year | 280 BC - 260 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Dolphin depicted in high relief, curving sinuously across the flan in the characteristic Etruscan artistic manner, its body arched with the head oriented to the right. Three pellets marking the quadrans value are visible in the field alongside the dolphin motif. The reverse field is otherwise plain and unlettered, consistent with the aes grave coinage tradition of Tarquinii. The casting is irregular and thick, with a rough surface texture resulting from the sand-casting technique employed by Etruscan moneyers of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tarquinii, the great Etruscan city whose name the Romans borrowed for two of their early kings, struck heavy cast bronze during the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC as Etruscan political power was contracting under Roman pressure. This quadrans belongs to the aes grave tradition — cast rather than struck — at a weight standard already declining from earlier, heavier series as the region's economic autonomy eroded. By the mid-3rd century BC, Tarquinii had effectively ceded monetary independence to Rome.