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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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| Currency | As (circa 301-201 BC) |
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| Reverse description | An anchor depicted in relief at center, its shank, stock, and flukes rendered in a simple, stylized manner. A single pellet (value mark indicating one uncia) is positioned to the right of the anchor in the field. The surfaces are flat and irregular, consistent with hammered Etruscan bronze coinage of the period. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (240 BC - 225 BC) |
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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.