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1 Semis
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Weight | 151.60 g |
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| Obverse description | A krater rendered in relief occupies the central field, depicted in profile with a rounded body and flaring mouth, consistent with the aes grave casting tradition of Central Italy. The design is bold and schematic, characteristic of early Roman and Italic monetary iconography. The surface shows typical casting texture with slight irregularities at the flan edges. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Aes grave — literally "heavy bronze" — was cast rather than struck, a production method that sets these pieces apart from virtually every other coinage tradition in the ancient Mediterranean. This semis belongs to the contested output of central Italian mints whose precise civic attribution remains unresolved; the references align it broadly with the series catalogued by Haeberlin, whose 1910 monograph on aes grave remains the foundational study despite a century of subsequent scholarship failing to fully resolve the attribution problem.
At this weight, the piece reflects the pre-reform libral or near-libral standard before Roman monetary reorganization progressively reduced cast bronze weights through the Second Punic War period.