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1 Uncia Wheel / Amphora
| Issuer | Uncertain Etruscan mint |
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| Year | 240 BC - 225 BC |
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| Weight | 10.37 g |
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| Reverse description | An amphora shown in low relief at center, with a single pellet (dot) to the right serving as the value mark denoting one uncia, equivalent to one-twelfth of an as. The vessel is rendered in a schematic, archaic style consistent with Etruscan aes grave coinage, with a broad, rounded body and characteristic handles visible on either side of the neck. The flan is irregular and the surface retains a dark patina typical of cast bronze of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Etruscan bronze coinage of this period remains poorly understood in terms of specific issuing authority — no mint has been definitively assigned, and attribution continues to shift across scholarship. What is clear is that these small cast bronzes circulated in a region under mounting Roman pressure during the First Punic War years, when Roman monetary infrastructure was itself still coalescing around the aes grave system. The uncia fraction, representing one-twelfth of the as, was the smallest practical denomination in that weight standard.
Haeberlin's foundational typology, compiled from hoard and collection data in the early twentieth century, remains the primary reference framework despite its age.