Catalog
1 Uncia
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | A cocoon motif rendered in low relief occupies the central field, depicted in profile with characteristic segmented form. A single pellet, serving as the value mark for one uncia, is placed to the left of the cocoon. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with the cast production technique typical of Central Italian aes grave coinage of this period. The surfaces are heavily patinated, with the design emerging from a granular bronze ground. |
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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 — this series of cast bronze has been assigned at various points to Hatria, Luceria, and several Samnite communities, with no consensus reached. Haeberlin's foundational work on aes grave catalogued the physical evidence exhaustively but stopped short of a firm attribution, a position the field has largely maintained for over a century.
Cast rather than struck, during a period when Roman monetary influence was spreading rapidly through the peninsula but had not yet displaced local weight standards.