1 As

These heavy cast bronzes — the aes grave issues of pre-Roman central Italy — were produced before the Roman monetary system fully absorbed the region's local traditions. At over 300 grams, this piece dates to a period when the as was still theoretically tied to the Roman libral standard, though by the mid-third century that standard was already being eroded by the financial pressures of the First Punic War. The issuing city remains unattributed with certainty; Haeberlin's classification acknowledges the ambiguity without resolving it.