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Heavy cast bronze of this weight places it firmly in the aes grave tradition, produced before Rome's monetary consolidation made regional issues redundant. The specific attribution to an uncertain Central Italian city reflects a genuine scholarly impasse — the iconographic and metrological evidence has never cleanly resolved to a single mint, and the references cited disagree on finer points of origin. Sydenham and Thurlow-Vecchi assign different weights to comparable pieces within this type, suggesting either multiple casting sites or significant variation within a single series.