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1 Semuncia Wheel / Axe, struck

Issuer Uncertain Etruscan mint
Year 225 BC - 211 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse lettering V
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Mintage ND (225 BC - 211 BC) - With letter F -
ND (225 BC - 211 BC) - With letter V -
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The period 225–211 BC brackets two catastrophic events in Roman-Etruscan history: the Gallic invasion repelled at Telamon in 225 and the aftermath of Cannae in 216, when Hannibal's destruction of a Roman army sent shockwaves through every allied and semi-autonomous mint in northern and central Italy. Etruscan bronze issues of this window are difficult to pin to a single city precisely because civic identity was fracturing under Roman pressure — the attribution "uncertain mint" reflects genuine scholarly disagreement, not incomplete research.

The semuncia denomination places this at the small end of the Etruscan cast-then-struck bronze sequence, a transitional moment when southern Italian striking conventions were displacing the older Etruscan tradition of cast aes grave entirely.