1 Triens

The heavy cast bronzes of uncertain Central Italian origin remain among the most contested attributions in Republican numismatics. The combination of ICC #281 and HN Italy #362 places this piece within a cluster of issues whose civic origins have never been conclusively resolved — Luceria, Venusia, and several other colonial foundations have all been proposed and disputed in turn. At 101 grams, this is a piece produced before the systematic weight reductions that followed Rome's monetary crises of the Second Punic War.