2 Asses Archaic wheel / Archaic wheel

Etruscan aes grave production remains poorly understood in terms of specific mint attribution — the issuing authority here is genuinely uncertain, and scholars have debated whether pieces of this type originated from a single center or multiple workshops operating within a loose regional tradition. What is clear is that by the mid-third century BC, bronze casting of this weight class was already anachronistic; Rome had largely abandoned comparable heavy cast coinage, and Etruscan cities issuing such pieces were operating against the grain of a Mediterranean world moving toward struck silver.

At over 280 grams, this is functional metal by mass rather than convenience — transactional in the way a bullion weight is transactional.