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1 Sextans Augur / Sacrificial implements

Issuer Uncertain Etruscan mint
Year 240 BC - 225 BC
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Diameter 31 mm
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Reverse description Sacrificial implements of the augural ritual arranged in the field: a makaira (curved sacrificial knife) and a secespita (a straight-bladed ritual axe), rendered in flat relief. Two pellets confirming the sextans denomination appear at centre, with a crescent symbol positioned to the right. The design is characteristic of Etruscan aes grave coinage, with devices boldly struck and simply delineated against a plain field.
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The Etruscan bronze series to which this sextans belongs was struck during a period when Rome's influence over Etruria had become effectively total — the final Etruscan resistance had collapsed at Volsinii in 264 BC, and by the time these coins were produced, the issuing communities were operating under Roman oversight, if not outright Roman direction. The sextans denomination fits within a libral or sub-libral weight standard that mirrors Roman aes grave practice, suggesting deliberate alignment with the Roman monetary system rather than independent Etruscan tradition.

Attributing these pieces to a specific mint remains genuinely difficult. The ICC and HN Italy references group them under uncertain Etruscan production, and that uncertainty is not false modesty — provenance clustering has not produced a consensus findspot.

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