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1 Quadrans
| Issuer | Uncertain city of Central Italy |
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| Year | 301 BC - 201 BC |
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| Value | Quadrans (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | A large bunch of grapes depicted hanging downward to the left, rendered in high relief with individual berries clearly articulated in a naturalistic style characteristic of central Italian aes grave coinage. The cluster fills the field with bold, sculptural presence, consistent with the heavy cast bronze tradition of the Roman Republican period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The heavy aes grave series of central Italy presents persistent attribution problems, and this quadrans is no exception — "uncertain city" is not a cataloger's evasion but an honest reflection of scholarship's limits. At 61.48g, this piece falls within the expected range for a pre-reform libral or sub-libral standard, before Rome's Second Punic War pressures drove systematic weight reductions across the Italian bronze series. The Sydenham and Thurlow-Vecchi references place it within a coherent typological group, but the issuing authority remains genuinely contested among specialists.