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1 Quadrans Archaic wheel / Value
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Currency | As (circa 301-201 BC) |
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| Obverse description | Archaic four-spoked wheel depicted in high relief, enclosed within a raised circular border or incuse ring. The spokes radiate from a central hub to the outer rim, rendered in a bold, primitive Etruscan style characteristic of early cast and hammered Aes Grave coinage. The field is plain, with no legend or additional devices. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, largely flat or slightly concave field bearing three pellets (value marks) arranged to denote the quadrans denomination, equivalent to one-quarter of an As. The pellets are distributed within a broad incuse depression typical of Etruscan Aes Grave fabric, with no legend or additional devices present. The surface shows the irregular flan characteristic of hand-hammered archaic Italian bronze coinage. |
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The Etruscan bronze cast coinages of this period remain among the most poorly documented in Italian numismatics — mint attributions are contested, and "uncertain Etruscan" reflects genuine scholarly disagreement rather than laziness. What is clear is that wheel-type quadrantes belong to a transitional moment when Etruscan city-states were losing political ground to Rome but had not yet abandoned independent monetary production. Some scholars place related issues at Volsinii or Vetulonia, though none of those attributions has achieved consensus.