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1 Sextans
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Owl standing left in profile, rendered in high relief in the archaic Italian cast-bronze tradition. A single pellet appears on each side of the owl, serving as value marks denoting the sextans denomination. The surface exhibits the characteristic rough texture of a cast aes grave piece. |
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| Reverse description | Boar's head facing left in profile, depicted in bold relief typical of Central Italian aes grave coinage. A single pellet is positioned above and a single pellet below the boar's head, confirming the sextans denomination value marks. The casting produces a slightly irregular flan with a granular patinated surface consistent with bronze pieces of this period. |
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Heavy cast bronzes of this type — attributed to an unidentified central Italian mint operating somewhere in the orbit of Rome's expanding influence — represent the final generations of the aes grave tradition before struck coinage displaced it entirely. The issuing authority remains contested; the attribution to "uncertain" central Italy reflects genuine scholarly disagreement, not simply missing evidence. Haeberlin's foundational 1910 study catalogued the casting seams and fabric variations that distinguish these pieces by probable workshop, but no ancient source names the city.
At this weight, the sextans carried one-sixth of the as, placing it at the functional bottom of daily bronze transactions.