Catalog
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | Uncia (1⁄12) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (301 BC - 201 BC) - Unique |
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The attribution "uncertain city of Central Italy" reflects a genuine scholarly impasse — these cast bronze pieces circulate through the literature under shifting assignments, with Haeberlin, Sydenham, and later researchers disagreeing on whether production belonged to a Latin, Oscan, or Umbrian community. The aes grave tradition they belong to was already obsolescent by the mid-third century, accelerated by Rome's expanding monetary dominance following the Pyrrhic War and the Second Punic War's financial disruptions.
Cast rather than struck, placing it firmly in pre-reform bronze production before the reducted libral standard took hold.