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1 Triens Wheel / Anchor
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Value | 1 Triens = ⅓ As |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (240 BC - 225 BC) |
| Additional information |
The Etruscan triens belongs to a pre-Roman monetary tradition that operated on the as-based duodecimal system, with the triens representing four-twelfths of the unit. The specific mint attribution for wheel-and-anchor types remains genuinely contested — Vecchi and others have proposed northern Etruscan origins, but no excavation context has settled the question definitively.
These heavy cast bronzes were already archaic in concept by the time Rome's struck coinage was gaining dominance. The sheer mass of a surviving example like this one reflects a monetary weight standard in active retreat.