Catalog
1 Sextans Dots right
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | Sextans (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | A spearhead depicted in high relief at center, facing upward, with two pellets (value marks denoting the sextans denomination) positioned to the right of the spearhead in the flat, unadorned field. The design is rendered in the archaic cast bronze tradition characteristic of central Italian aes grave coinage, with bold, simplified forms and a somewhat irregular flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (301 BC - 201 BC) |
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Cast rather than struck, this heavy aes grave piece belongs to a cluster of issues attributed to an unidentified Central Italian mint — the "uncertain city" designation reflects genuine scholarly disagreement that has persisted since Haeberlin's cataloguing in the early twentieth century. Several candidates have been proposed over the decades, with Hatria and various Umbrian centers among them, but none has achieved consensus. The sextans fraction, representing one-sixth of the as, carries its two-dot value mark as the only reliable attribution anchor we have.