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1 Quadrans Dots below, with caduceus
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | Quadrans (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | A barley grain depicted in high relief at center, oriented horizontally, with three large pellets arranged in a row below serving as the value mark for the quadrans denomination. A caduceus is placed above the grain, its wings and serpent-entwined staff rendered in relief. The design is set within an irregularly shaped, roughly textured field typical of central Italian aes grave coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The attribution "uncertain city of Central Italy" reflects a genuine scholarly impasse — aes grave production in this period involved multiple communities issuing broadly similar heavy-cast bronzes, and without firm archaeological provenances, die-study alone rarely settles the question of origin. The dots-below variety distinguishes this specific emission within a series where control marks were the primary tool for separating issues, though which authority each mark corresponds to remains contested among specialists working from Haeberlin's foundational corpus.