1 As

Heavy cast bronze of this weight places it squarely within the earliest phase of Roman-influenced aes grave production in Central Italy, before the progressive weight reductions of the Second Punic War systematically drove the as down from the Etrusco-Campanian standard. The issuing city remains unidentified with certainty — Haeberlin's attribution has been contested without resolution, and the piece continues to circulate through scholarship under a deliberately vague regional tag.