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1 Sextans Archaic wheel / Archaic wheel
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Value | 1 Sextans = ⅙ As |
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| Obverse description | Archaic four-spoked wheel depicted in low relief, rendered in a primitive geometric style characteristic of early Etruscan bronze coinage. A single pellet appears in each of the two lateral fields between the wheel spokes, serving as the value mark denoting the sextans denomination. The wheel design is contained within a raised circular border, and the flan exhibits the irregular, cast surface typical of Etruscan aes grave production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Etruscan bronze coinage of this period remains poorly attributed — no mint has been conclusively identified for this series, and scholarly consensus has shifted repeatedly since Haeberlin's early cataloguing work. The wheel motif places this within a group now generally assigned to inland Etruria, though whether a single mint or multiple workshops produced these pieces is still unresolved.
The sextans denomination indicates a duodecimal weight standard, with two pellets marking its fractional value within the as system — one of the clearest points of contact between Etruscan and Central Italian monetary practice before Roman absorption of the region.