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1 Sextans Wheel / Wheel
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A four-spoked wheel depicted in full face, centered within a plain circular border. Two pellets appear in one of the spaces between adjacent spokes, serving as the value mark for the sextans denomination. The spokes radiate symmetrically from a central hub, rendered in a bold, archaic Etruscan style characteristic of cast Aes Grave coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (240 BC - 225 BC) |
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The attribution "uncertain Etruscan mint" reflects a genuine scholarly impasse — several production centers in northern Etruria struck wheel-type bronzes during this period, and die studies have not yet produced consensus on a single origin. Haeberlin's foundational work grouped these pieces by weight standard rather than provenance, a methodology that subsequent cataloguers have refined but never fully replaced.
The sextans denomination places this coin within the as-based system, theoretically valued at one-sixth of the as.