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1 Uncia Wheel / Wheel, four curved 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 | A four-spoked wheel with curved, sickle-shaped spokes emanating from a raised central hub, identical in type to the obverse design and similarly filling the entire field. The relief is slightly flatter than the obverse, a feature not uncommon in double-type cast bronze issues of this series. No legend, exergual mark, or border is present. The surface retains an overall dark bronze patina with areas of encrustation consistent with ancient burial or prolonged circulation. |
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| Mintage | ND (240 BC - 225 BC) |
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These cast bronze pieces belong to a poorly understood series produced somewhere in Etruria during the mid-third century BC, a period when Roman military pressure was reshaping the region's political and economic arrangements. The issuing authority remains unidentified — "uncertain Etruscan mint" is the honest answer, not a placeholder for eventual attribution. Scholars have debated whether the wheel motif carried functional symbolism tied to wagon manufacture or trade guilds, but no consensus has held.
Casting rather than striking was still the norm in this region at this date, which affects surface texture and centering in ways that have no parallel in contemporary Roman struck coinage.