1 Quadrans Cantharus series

The attribution "uncertain city of Central Italy" understates a genuine scholarly dispute that has persisted for over a century. Various authorities have assigned this series to Hatria, Luceria, and at least two other Samnite-adjacent mints — none conclusively. The cantharus type itself appears across several Central Italian bronze series of the period, which has made die-linking studies the primary tool for narrowing provenance, with limited success.

At over 70 grams, this falls within the heaviest phase of the aes grave tradition, before the Second Punic War's financial pressures forced successive reductions in the libral standard.