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1 Uncia Wheel / Anchor, five spokes
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse description | A five-spoked wheel depicted in relief at center, the hub and rim clearly delineated, with the spokes radiating outward in a symmetrical arrangement. The design is rendered in a bold, archaic style characteristic of early Etruscan aes grave coinage. The field is flat and irregular, consistent with hammered production. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The wheel-and-anchor bronzes attributed to uncertain Etruscan production represent one of the more debated chapters in pre-Roman Italian numismatics. Scholars have argued over attribution for decades — Etruria is the consensus, but no mint site has been confirmed archaeologically, and the anchor type in particular appears in hoards scattered across a wide enough geographic range to complicate any single-city attribution. The five-spoke wheel variant documented here differs from the more common four-spoke examples, and the die classification in ICC#152 marks it as a variety rather than the type coin itself.