1 Triens Value series

Volaterrae — the Etruscan city known to Romans as Volaterrae and to its own inhabitants as Velathri — issued heavy cast bronze during a period when Rome's allied and subject communities were still maintaining independent monetary production. This triens belongs to a series that precedes Roman standardization of the As, placing it squarely in the transitional aes grave tradition of central Italy. The weight alone reflects the pre-reform libral or near-libral standard, before successive reductions gutted bronze coinage across the peninsula during the Punic War period.