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1 Uncia Wheel / Anchor, four spokes
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | A wheel motif with four spokes divides the field into quadrants, each containing a pellet or small globule in the angle between spokes. A small bird or animal figure appears at the hub. The design is rendered in a bold, archaic Etruscan style with deeply incised lines on an irregular flan, characteristic of central Italian aes grave production. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Etruscan bronze coinage of this period remains poorly understood — mint attributions are contested, and the wheel motif appears across multiple production centers in northern and central Italy, making secure localization genuinely difficult. What is certain is that these fractional cast bronzes predate Roman monetary dominance in the region and circulated within Etruscan commercial networks at a moment when Rome's own aes grave system was still being consolidated. The specific anchor/wheel pairing narrows the type considerably within Haeberlin's classification, but the issuing city remains unresolved in the literature.