1 Triens Dots to the right

The triens struck by this unattributed Central Italian mint sits in one of the more contested corners of early Roman-period bronze coinage. The "dots to the right" variety — a positional die marker rather than a value indicator — has been used by scholars including Haeberlin and Sydenham to group these pieces by workshop without resolving the issuing authority. The attribution to a generic "uncertain city" is itself a scholarly compromise; candidates have included Luceria and several smaller Samnite-adjacent communities whose minting activity remains poorly documented in the literary record.