Catalog
1 Sextans Dots divided
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Weight | 55.50 g |
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| Reverse description | A trident displayed upright at center, with three tines visible and the shaft extending downward, flanked by a single pellet to the left and a single pellet to the right, again indicating the sextans value. The design is boldly cast in high relief within a roughly circular flan, consistent with the aes grave coinage tradition of third-century BC Central Italy. |
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| Mintage | ND (301 BC - 201 BC) - Seemingly unique |
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The sextans denomination — one-sixth of an as — was struck by numerous central Italian mints operating outside Rome's direct monetary authority during the third century BC, many of which remain unidentified. The "dots divided" descriptor refers to a specific die arrangement of the value marks that distinguishes this emission from otherwise similar issues, and it is this detail that allows catalogers to separate production runs that would otherwise be indistinguishable by weight or module alone.
HN Italy 379 places it within a loose grouping of uncertain Samnite or Campanian-adjacent issues — the attribution has shifted across scholarship without resolution.